Job 24:1-12

American Standard Version

24 ^[a]Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?
And why do not they that know him see his days?
² There are that remove the landmarks;
They violently take away flocks, and feed 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 ^[b]poor of the earth all hide themselves.
⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert
They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for ^[c]food;
The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.
⁶ They cut ^[d]their provender in the field;
And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
⁷ They lie all night naked without clothing,
And have no covering in the cold.
⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,
And ^[e]take a pledge of the poor;
¹⁰ So that they go about naked without clothing,
And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men;
They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
¹² From out of the ^[f]populous city men groan,
And the soul of the wounded crieth out:
Yet God regardeth not the folly.