The Book of Job
Job, Chapter 24
Why [since] times are not hidden from the Almighty, even those knowing Him do not see His days?
They move the landmarks; they seize and pasture flocks;
If they drive away the ass of orphans; they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together.
Behold, [like] wild asses in the desert, they go out in their work, seeking early for prey; the desert [yields] food for him for [their] young.
They reap his fodder in the field, and they glean the wicked's vineyard.
They lodge naked ones without clothing, and [give] no cover against the cold.
They are wet with the showers of hills, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.
They seize the orphan from the breast, and lay a pledge on the poor.
They make [them] go without clothing, and hungry they lift up the sheaves.
They press out oil between their walls; they tread winepresses, but are thirsty.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge unseemliness.
They are among rebellers against light; they do not recognize His ways, nor do they stay in His paths.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief.
And the adulterer's eye keeps watch for twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering [on his] face.
In the dark he digs through houses; they shut themselves up by day; they do not know the light.
For alike [are] morning [and] the shadow of death to them; for he knows the terrors of death shadow.
He [is] swift on the waters; their part is cursed in the earth; he does not face the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; Sheol [those who] have sinned.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall suck on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.
[He] ill treats the barren [that] bear not, and does no good to the widow.
He also draws the mighty with his strength; He rises up, and no one is sure of life.
He gives security to him, and he leans on [it]; yet His eyes [are] on their ways.
They are lifted up for a little while, but they are not; and they are brought low; they are gathered in like all [others], and wither like the heads of ears of grain.
And if not, then who will prove me a liar, and make my speech into nothing?
