Job 24

1 [“] Why from Shaddai are the times not hidden away, and those knowing Him, they have not seen His days?

2 They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it.

3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take as a pledge the ox of the widow.

4 They push the needy off the road; together are hidden the poor of the land.

5 Behold, wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth in their work of searching for food; the Arabah [gives] food for them [and] for the young.

6 In the field they gather his fodder, and in the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

7 Naked they spend the night without a garment, and with no covering in the cold.

8 From the showers of the mountains they are wet, and from [being] without a shelter, they have embraced the rock.

9 They snatch from the breast the fatherless, and the suckling of the poor they bind with a pledge.

10 Naked They go about, without clothing, and hungry—they carry a sheaf.

11 Between their walls they press oil; they tread the winepresses and go thirsty.

12 From the city men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out; yet God does not ascribe impropriety.

13 They are among those rebelling against the light; they do not recognize its ways, and they do not dwell in its paths.

14 At light the murderer arises; he kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he puts a cover over his face.

16 In the darkness one digs [into] houses, by day they seal themselves in; they do not know the light.

17 For the morning [is] for them together the shadow of death—for one regards the terrors of the shadow of death!

18 He is swift on the face of the waters; cursed [is] their portion in the land. He does not turn to the way of the vineyards.

19 [As] drought and heat tear away the waters of snow, [so] Sheol [does] to those who have sinned.

20 The womb forgets him, the worm feeds sweetly on him; no more is he remembered, and injustice is broken like a tree.

21 For he feeds [on] the barren woman [who] cannot give birth, and [to] the widow he does not do good.

22 And he draws away the mighty with his power; he rises up, and he is not sure of life.

23 He gives to him security, and he is supported; and his eyes [are] on their ways.

24 They are exalted for a little [while], then they [are] no more; and they are brought low like all [and] are gathered up, and like heads of grain they wither.

25 And if not, then who will prove me a liar, and set to nought my speech?”