Job 24:1–12

1  Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days? 2  They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; 3  They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge; 4  They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves. 5  Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children. 6  They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked; 7  They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; 8  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock… 9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: 10  These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf; 11  They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. 12  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and †God imputeth not the impiety.