Job
Job, Chapter 24
[Since] times are not hidden from the Almighty, why do those who know Him not see His days?
They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Behold, [like] 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.
They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked.
They lodge the naked without clothing, and [give] no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.
They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor 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 eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on [his] face.
In the dark they dig through houses [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
For the morning [is] to them like the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
He [is] swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; [so does] the grave those who have sinned.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.
[He] ill-treats the women who bear no [children]; and does no good to the widow.
He also draws the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no one is sure of life.
He gives safety to him, and he rests on [it]; yet His eyes [are] on their ways.
They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all [others], and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.
And if [it is] not [so], who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
