Job 24:1-12

Jubilee Bible 2000

24 ¶ Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?

² Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.

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; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves from them.

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

⁶ In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage that is not theirs.

⁷ They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

⁸ They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.

¹⁰ They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

¹¹ They press oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst.

¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.