1“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?
Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2There are those who move boundary stones;
they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3They drive away the orphan’s donkey
and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4They thrust the needy from the path
and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go about their labor of foraging food;
the wasteland provides food for their children.
6They gather fodder in the fields
and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8They are drenched by mountain rains
and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;
the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10Lacking clothes, they go about naked;
they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11They crush olives among the terraces24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.;
they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12The groans of the dying rise from the city,
and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.
But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13“There are those who rebel against the light,
who do not know its ways
or stay in its paths.
14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
kills the poor and needy,
and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;
he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he keeps his face concealed.
16In the dark, thieves break into houses,
but by day they shut themselves in;
they want nothing to do with the light.
17For all of them, midnight is their morning;
they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;
their portion of the land is cursed,
so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,
so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets them,
the worm feasts on them;
the wicked are no longer remembered
but are broken like a tree.
21They prey on the barren and childless woman,
and to the widow they show no kindness.
22But God drags away the mighty by his power;
though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23He may let them rest in a feeling of security,
but his eyes are on their ways.
24For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are cut off like heads of grain.
25“If this is not so, who can prove me false
and reduce my words to nothing?”
Ìbéèrè Jobu
1“Ṣe bí ìgbà kò pamọ́ lọ́dọ̀ Olódùmarè fún ìdájọ́?
Èéṣe tí ojúlùmọ̀ rẹ̀ kò fi rí ọjọ́ rẹ̀?
2Wọ́n a sún ààmì ààlà ilẹ̀,
wọ́n á fi agbára kó agbo ẹran lọ, wọ́n a sì bọ́ wọn.
3Wọ́n á sì da kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ aláìní baba
lọ, wọ́n a sì gba ọ̀dá màlúù opó ní ohun ògo.
4Wọ́n á bi aláìní kúrò lójú ọ̀nà,
àwọn tálákà ayé a fi agbára sápamọ́.
5Kíyèsi i, bí i kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ igbó nínú ijù ni àwọn tálákà jáde lọ sí iṣẹ́ wọn,
wọ́n a tètè dìde láti wá ohun ọdẹ;
ijù pèsè oúnjẹ fún wọn àti fún àwọn ọmọ wọn.
6Olúkúlùkù a sì sá ọkà oúnjẹ ẹran rẹ̀ nínú oko,
wọn a sì ká ọgbà àjàrà ènìyàn búburú.
7Ní ìhòhò ni wọn máa sùn láìní aṣọ,
tí wọn kò ní ìbora nínú òtútù.
8Ọ̀wààrà òjò òkè ńlá sì pa wọ́n,
wọ́n sì lẹ̀ mọ́ àpáta nítorí tí kò sí ààbò.
9Wọ́n já ọmọ aláìní baba kúrò ní ẹnu ọmú,
wọ́n sì gbà ọmọ tálákà nítorí gbèsè.
10Wọ́n rìn kiri ní ìhòhò láìní aṣọ;
àwọn tí ebi ń pa rẹrù ìdì ọkà,
11Àwọn ẹni tí ń fún òróró nínú àgbàlá wọn,
tí wọ́n sì ń tẹ ìfúntí àjàrà, síbẹ̀ òǹgbẹ sì ń gbẹ wọn.
12Àwọn ènìyàn ń kérora láti ìlú wá,
ọkàn àwọn ẹni tí ó gbọgbẹ́ kígbe sókè fún ìrànlọ́wọ́
síbẹ̀ Ọlọ́run kò kíyèsi àṣìṣe náà.
13“Àwọn ni ó wà nínú àwọn tí ó ṣọ̀tẹ̀ sí ìmọ́lẹ̀;
Wọn kò mọ̀ ipa ọ̀nà rẹ̀,
bẹ́ẹ̀ ni wọn kò dúró nípa ọ̀nà rẹ̀.
14Apànìyàn a dìde ní àfẹ̀mọ́júmọ́,
a sì pa tálákà àti aláìní,
àti ní òru a di olè.
15Ojú alágbèrè pẹ̀lú dúró kí ilẹ̀ ṣú díẹ̀;
‘Ó ní, ojú ẹnìkan kì yóò rí mi,’
ó sì fi ìbòjú bojú rẹ̀.
16Ní òkùnkùn wọn á rúnlẹ̀ wọlé,
tí wọ́n ti fi ojú sọ fún ara wọn ní ọ̀sán,
wọn kò mọ̀ ìmọ́lẹ̀.
17Nítorí pé bí òru dúdú ní òwúrọ̀ fún gbogbo wọn;
nítorí tí wọn sì mọ̀ ìbẹ̀rù òkùnkùn.
18“Ó yára lọ bí ẹni lójú omi;
ìpín wọn ní ilé ayé ni a ó parun;
òun kò rìn lọ mọ́ ní ọ̀nà ọgbà àjàrà.
19Gẹ́gẹ́ bi ọ̀dá àti òru ní í mú omi òjò-dídì yọ́,
bẹ́ẹ̀ ní isà òkú í run àwọn tó dẹ́ṣẹ̀.
20Inú ìbímọ yóò gbàgbé rẹ̀, kòkòrò
ní yóò máa fi adùn jẹun lára rẹ̀,
a kì yóò rántí ènìyàn búburú
mọ́; Bẹ́ẹ̀ ní a ó sì ṣẹ ìwà búburú bí ẹní ṣẹ́ igi;
21Ẹni tí o hù ìwà búburú sí àgàn tí
kò ṣe rere sí opó.
22Ọlọ́run fi ipá agbára rẹ̀ fa alágbára,
bí wọ́n tilẹ̀ fìdímúlẹ̀, kò sí ìrètí ìyè fún wọn.
23Ọlọ́run sì fi àìléwu fún un,
àti nínú èyí ni a ó sì tì i lẹ́yìn,
ojú rẹ̀ sì wà ní ipa ọ̀nà wọn.
24A gbé wọn lékè nígbà díẹ̀, wọ́n kọjá lọ;
a sì rẹ̀ wọ́n sílẹ̀; A sì mú wọn kúrò ní ọ̀nà bí àwọn ẹlòmíràn,
a sì ké wọn kúrò bí orí síírí ọkà bàbà.
25“Ǹjẹ́, bí kò bá rí bẹ́ẹ̀ nísinsin yìí, ta ni yóò mú mi ní èké,
tí yóò sì sọ ọ̀rọ̀ mi di aláìníláárí?”
