Job 24:1-16 ▼

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.