Job 24:1-12

Modern English Version

24 “Since times of judgment are not kept by the Almighty,
    why do they who know Him not see His days?
² Some remove the landmarks;
    they violently take away flocks and feed on them.
³ They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
⁴ They turn away the needy;
    the poor of the earth are forced to hide.
⁵ Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
    they go out to their work, rising early for a prey.
    The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
⁶ They gather their fodder in the field,
    and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
⁷ They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,
    and they 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 They snatch the fatherless from the breast
    and take a pledge from the poor.
¹⁰ They cause him to go naked without clothing,
    and they take away the sheaf from the hungry.
¹¹ They press out oil within their walls
    and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
¹² Men groan from outside the city,
    and the soul of the wounded cries out;
    yet God does not charge them with wrong.