Job 24

¹“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

²Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

⁴They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

⁵Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

⁶They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

⁷Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

⁸Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

⁹The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

¹⁰Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

¹¹They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

¹²From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

¹³Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

¹⁴When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.