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.

¹³ “They are those who rebel against the light;
    they do not know its ways
    nor abide in its paths.
¹⁴ The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
¹⁵ Also the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
    saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
    and he disguises his face.
¹⁶ In the dark they break into houses,
    which they had marked for themselves in the daytime;
    they do not know the light.
¹⁷ For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death;
    if someone recognizes them,
    they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

¹⁸ “He is swift as the waters.
    Their portion is cursed in the earth.
    They do not turn toward the way of the vineyards.
¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
    so the grave consumes those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb will forget him;
    the worm will feed sweetly on him;
he will be remembered no more,
    and wickedness will be broken like a tree.
²¹ He preys on the barren who do not bear,
    and does no good for the widow.
²² But God draws the mighty away with His power;
    He rises up, and no man is sure of life.
²³ He gives them security, and they rely on it;
    yet His eyes are on their ways.
²⁴ They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low;
    they are taken out of the way like all others
    and cut off as the tops of the grain.

²⁵ “If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
    and make my speech worth nothing?”