Job 24:1-25 NET

[1] "Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days? [2] Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. [3] They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge. [4] They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together. [5] Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children. [6] They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked. [7] They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold. [8] They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter. [9] The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. [10] They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves. [11] They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. [12] From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing. [13] There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. [14] Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. [15] And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask. [16] In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. [17] For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness. [18] "You say, 'He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard. [19] The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner. [20] The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down. [21] He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well. [22] But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life. [23] God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways. [24] They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.' [25] "If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?"