Job 24

¹Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?

²Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

³They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

⁴They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

⁵Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

⁶They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.

⁷They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

⁸They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

⁹They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

¹⁰They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

¹¹They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.

¹²Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.

¹³These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

¹⁴The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.