Job Magnifying How Sinners Live

Job showcasing the evil practices and end of wicked or evil people.

Though identical with the righteous in some ways, G-d indeed knows the difference in great detail.

If you choose to do bad or decide to change your way of life, both will be judged according to G-d’s word; not yours or man’s.

“The Sinners’ Ways”

People move boundary markers; they rob a flock and graze it [for themselves].
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They let the naked spend the night unclothed, without garment against the cold;
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From the city the populace groans and the souls of the slain cry out, but God does not lay guilt!
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They were among those who rebel against daylight; not recognizing His ways nor settling in His pathways.
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The adulterer’s eye awaits the night, saying, ‘No eye will see me!’ and he applies himself [to sin] in concealment.
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As drought and heat snatch melting snow, so the grave [snatches] sinners.
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[God] grants him security, and he relies on it, but His eyes are fixed on their ways.
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They are exalted briefly, and then they are gone. They are crushed, like all who are swept away, and they are snapped off like the top of a stalk.
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1 Why were the times not hidden from the Almighty? And He Who knows him should not see his days.
2 [There are some who] remove the landmarks; they violently take away a flock and pasture them.
3 They lead away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They make the needy turn off the road; the poor of the land hide together.
5 Behold, [as] wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking prey; the wilderness yields bread for his young men.
6 In the field, they reap his produce, and the wicked gather the plants of the vineyard.
7 They make them lie all night naked without clothing and without a cover in the cold.
8 From the stream of the mountains they become wet, and without shelter they embrace the rocks.
9 They rob from the breast of the orphan, and they take a pledge from a poor man.
10 They made [him] go naked without clothing and [from] the hungry they carried off the sheaves.
11 Between their rows they make oil; they tread the winepresses but they are thirsty.
12 From the city people groan, and the soul of the slain cries out; yet God does not impute it for unseemliness.
13 They were among those who rebelled because of rain; they did not recognize His ways, neither did they sit in His paths.
14 Should one rise in daylight, he would murder, he would slay the poor and the needy, and at night he would be like a thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer awaits evening, saying, “No eye will see me,” and he puts a mask on his face.
16 In the dark, he digs under houses; by day, they lock themselves in; they know no light.
17 For together morning is to them [as] the shadow of death, for he recognizes the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is light upon the face of the water; their portion in the earth is cursed; he does not turn by the way of the vineyards.
19 Dryness and heat they steal away, [also] snow water; [they descended to] the grave [because] they had sinned.
20 The womb forgets him; he is sweet to the worms; he will no longer be remembered. Injustice was broken like a tree.
21 He feeds the barren woman who will not bear, but he does not adorn the widow.
22 And He draws the mighty men with His strength; he rises and does not believe in his life.
23 He grants him safety and he relies [upon it], but His eyes are on their ways.
24 They are taken away in a second and he is no more, and they are crushed; like all they are gathered in, and like the tip of an ear of grain they will be cut off.
25 And if it is not so, then who will prove me a liar and make my words as nought?”