Job 24:1–12

¹“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment?

Why may those who know Him never see His days?

²Men move boundary stones;

they pasture stolen flocks.

³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless

and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

⁴They push the needy off the road

and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

⁵Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go to work foraging for food;

the wasteland is food for their children.

⁶They gather fodder in the fields

and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

⁷Without clothing, they spend the night naked;

they have no covering against the cold.

⁸Drenched by mountain rains,

they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

⁹The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;

the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

¹⁰Without clothing, they wander about naked.

They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

¹¹They crush olives within their walls;

they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

¹²From the city, men groan,

and the souls of the wounded cry out,

yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.