Job 24:2-24

2 Some move ^alandmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they ^btake the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They ^cthrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth ^dall hide themselves.
5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor ^{▼▼Hebrew they} ^fgo out to their toil, ^gseeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6 They gather their ^{▼▼Hebrew his} fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7 They ⁱlie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and ^jcling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they ^kcarry the sheaves;
11 among the olive rows of the wicked ^{▼▼Hebrew their olive rows} they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12 From out of the city the dying groan,
and the soul of ^mthe wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with ⁿwrong.
13 “There are those who rebel ^oagainst the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises before it is light,
that he ^pmay kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for ^qthe twilight,
saying, ‘No ^reye will see me’;
and he veils his face.
16 In the dark they ^sdig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
17 For ^tdeep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18 “You say, ^u‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
their portion is cursed in the land;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
so does ^vSheol those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are ^wno longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like ^xa tree.’
21 “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
and do no good to the widow.
22 Yet God ^{▼▼Hebrew he} prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.
23 He gives them security, and they are supported,
and his ^zeyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted ^aaa little while, and then ^abare gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are ^accut off like the heads of grain.