Job 24:1-12

Revised Standard Version

24 “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,
    and why do those who know him never see his days?
² Men remove landmarks;
    they seize flocks and pasture them.
³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
⁴ They thrust the poor off the road;
    the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
⁵ Behold, like wild asses in the desert
    they go forth to their toil,
seeking prey in the wilderness
    as food^[a] for their children.
⁶ They gather their^[b] fodder in the field
    and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
⁷ They lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.
⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains,
    and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
⁹ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)
¹⁰ They go about naked, without clothing;
    hungry, they carry the sheaves;
¹¹ among the olive rows of the wicked^[c] they make oil;
    they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
¹² From out of the city the dying groan,
    and the soul of the wounded cries for help;
    yet God pays no attention to their prayer.