24 “Why doesn’t the Mighty One set a time for judging sinful people?
    Why do those who know him have to keep waiting for that day?
² People move their neighbor’s boundary stones.
    They steal their neighbor’s flocks.
³ They take away the donkeys
    that belong to children whose fathers have died.
    They take a widow’s ox until she has paid what she owes.
⁴ They push those who are needy out of their way.
    They force all the poor people in the land to go into hiding.
⁵ The poor are like wild donkeys in the desert.
    They have to go around looking for food.
    The dry and empty land provides the only food for their children.
⁶ The poor go to the fields and get a little grain.
    They gather up what is left in the vineyards of sinners.
⁷ The poor don’t have any clothes. So they spend the night naked.
    They don’t have anything to cover themselves in the cold.
⁸ They are soaked by mountain rains.
    They hug the rocks because they don’t have anything to keep them warm.
⁹ Children whose fathers have died
    are torn away from their mothers.
    A poor person’s baby is taken away to pay back what is owed.
¹⁰ The poor don’t have any clothes. They go around naked.
    They carry bundles of grain, but they still go hungry.
¹¹ They work very hard as they crush olives.
    They stomp on grapes in winepresses,
    but they are still thirsty.
¹² The groans of those who are dying are heard from the city.
    Those who are wounded cry out for help.
    But God doesn’t charge anyone with doing what is wrong.