Job 24:1-12

Darby Translation

24 Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?

² They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture 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 afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

⁵ Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.

⁶ They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;

⁷ They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

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

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

¹⁰ These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;

¹¹ They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.