Job 24:1–12

Job’s Eighth Speech, Continued

24 “Why are not times kept by Shaddai,

and why do not those who know him see his days?

2 Theya remove border stones;

they seize flocks, and they pasture them.

3 They drive away the donkey of orphans;

they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

4 They thrust the poor off the road;

the needy of the earth hide themselves together.b

5 “Look, like wild donkeys in the desert

theyc go out to their labor as searchers for the prey;

the wilderness isd ⌊their⌋e food for the young.

6 They reap theirf fodder in the field,

and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

7 They spend the night naked, ⌊without⌋g clothing,

and they have no garment in the cold.

8 They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,h

and they cling to the rock ⌊without⌋i refuge.

9 “Theyj snatch the orphan from the breast,

and they take a pledge against the needy.k

10 Theyl go about naked, without clothing,

and hungry, they carry the sheaves.m

11 Between their terraces they press out oil;

they tread the presses, butn they are thirsty.

12 From the city people groan,

and the throato of the wounded cries for help;

yetp God does not ⌊regard it as unseemly⌋.q