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24 “·I wish the Almighty would set a time for judging [L Why are times not kept by the Almighty/Shaddai?].
    ·Those who know God do [L Why do those who know God …?] not see such a day.
·Wicked people [L They] ·take other people’s land [L move boundaries; C move boundary markers];
    they steal flocks and ·take them to new pastures [L pasture them].
They chase away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox ·when she has no money [L as a pledge; Deut. 24:6, 10–13, 17].
They push needy people off the path;
    all the poor of the land hide from them.
The poor become like wild donkeys in the ·desert [wilderness]
    who go about their ·job of finding food [L work].
    ·The desert gives them [L In the desert they forage for] food for their children.
They ·gather hay and straw in the fields [L reap in fields not their own]
    and ·pick up leftover grapes [L glean] from the vineyard of the wicked.
They spend the night naked, because they have no clothes,
    nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
They are soaked from mountain ·rains [storms]
    and ·stay near [hug; embrace] the ·large rocks [cliffs] because they have no shelter.
The ·fatherless child [orphan] is grabbed from its mother’s breast;
    they take a poor mother’s baby ·to pay for what she owes [L as a pledge; 24:3].
10 So the poor ·go [wander] around naked without any clothes;
    they carry bundles of grain but still go hungry;
11 they crush olives to get oil
    and grapes to get wine, but they still go thirsty.
12 Dying people groan in the city,
    and the ·injured [or living dead] cry out for help,
    but God ·accuses no one of doing wrong [or does not hear/react to their prayers].

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Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

24 “Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?
Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]?(A)

“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].

“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

“They crowd the needy off the road;
The poor of the land all hide themselves.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;
As bread for their children in the desert.

“They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own],
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

“They spend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering against the cold.

“They are wet from the rain of the mountains
And cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].
10 
“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.
11 
“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;
They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.
12 
“From the [populous and crowded] city men groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry out for help;
Yet God [seemingly] does not pay attention to the wrong [done to them].

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