Job 24:1-17 ▼

1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? and why do not they which know him see his days?

2 There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

6 They cut their provender in the field; and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

10 So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;

11 They make oil within the walls of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

12 From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God imputeth it not for folly.

13 These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and he disguiseth his face.

16 In the dark they dig through houses: they shut themselves up in the daytime; they know not the light.

17 For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.