Job 24:1-12

New Century Version

24 “I wish the Almighty would set a time for judging.
    Those who know God do not see such a day.
² Wicked people take other people’s land;
    they steal flocks and take them to new pastures.
³ They chase away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox when she has no money.
⁴ They push needy people off the path;
    all the poor of the land hide from them.
⁵ The poor become like wild donkeys in the desert
    who go about their job of finding food.
    The desert gives them food for their children.
⁶ They gather hay and straw in the fields
    and pick up leftover grapes from the vineyard of the wicked.
⁷ They spend the night naked, because they have no clothes,
    nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
⁸ They are soaked from mountain rains
    and stay near the large rocks because they have no shelter.
⁹ The fatherless child is grabbed from its mother’s breast;
    they take a poor mother’s baby to pay for what she owes.
¹⁰ So the poor go 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 cry out for help,
    but God accuses no one of doing wrong.