Job 24:1–12

“Why are lnot times of judgment mkept by the Almighty,

and why do those who know him never see his ndays?

2  Some move olandmarks;

they seize flocks and pasture them.

3  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;

they ptake the widow’s ox for a pledge.

4  They qthrust the poor off the road;

the poor of the earth rall hide themselves.

5  Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert

the poor1 sgo out to their toil, tseeking game;

the wasteland yields food for their children.

6  They gather their2 fodder in the field,

and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

7  They ulie all night naked, without clothing,

and have no covering in the cold.

8  They are wet with the rain of the mountains

and vcling to the rock for lack of shelter.

9  (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,

and they take a pledge against the poor.)

10  They go about naked, without clothing;

hungry, they wcarry the sheaves;

11  among the olive rows of the wicked3 they make oil;

they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

12  From out of the city the dying4 groan,

and the soul of xthe wounded cries for help;

yet God charges no one with ywrong.