Job
24 “How comes it times are not reserved by Shaddai
and those who know him do not behold his days?
3 Drive off orphans’ donkeys,
take a widow’s cow and hold it as a pawn,
4 Force needy men off the road;
earth’s downtrodden go into hiding together.
5* They go out in the wilderness like wild asses
in their activities in quest of anything that can be eaten;
he has desert wastes as food for the boys.
6 On the range they make a harvest of its cattle-feed,
they go through a wicked man’s vineyard for belated grapes.
7 They pass the night naked for want of clothing
and coverless in the cold.
8 They are wet with mountain rainstorms
and hug rocks for lack of shelter.
12* Out of cities dying men groan
and souls of men mortally wounded shriek.
And God does not find any fault.
14* When it is not light a murderer stands up,
kills a downtrodden and needy man;
and in the night a thief goes about.
15 And an adulterer’s eye watches for dusk,
thinking ‘No eye will espy me,’
and he muffles up his face.
16* One breaks into houses in the dark.
By day they shut themselves in;
they make no acquaintance with light;
18** He is light on the surface of water;
their share in the land shall be cursed;
a treader shall not turn to their vineyard.
20* The womb that fashioned him will forget him,
his loftiness will not go on to be remembered,
and foul play breaks like a piece of wood.
23 He grants him to have confidence and reliance,
and his eyes are on their courses.
24* They have been lofty a little while, and there is nothing of them
and they are laid low, collapse like alkali-sorrel,
and are cut down like heads of grain.
25 If not, then, who will show me up as a liar
and reduce my claims to nothing?”