Job 24:5-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ “The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food.
    From morning to night they work to gather food for their children.
⁶ They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain.
    They work for the rich,^[b] gathering grapes in their vineyards.
⁷ They must sleep all night without clothes.
    They have no covers to protect them from the cold.
⁸ They are soaked with rain in the mountains.
    They stay close to the large rocks for shelter.
¹⁰ They have no clothes, so they work naked.
    They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.
¹¹ They press out olive oil
    and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink.