Job 24:1-25 GNT

[1] Why doesn't God set a time for judging, a day of justice for those who serve him? [2] People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks. [3] They take donkeys that belong to orphans, and keep a widow's ox till she pays her debts. [4] They prevent the poor from getting their rights and force the needy to run and hide. [5] So the poor, like wild donkeys, search for food in the dry wilderness; nowhere else can they find food for their children. [6] They have to harvest fields they don't own, and gather grapes in vineyards of the wicked. [7] At night they sleep with nothing to cover them, nothing to keep them from the cold. [8] They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains, and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter. [9] Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants and take the children of the poor in payment for debts. [10] But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat. [11] They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine, but they themselves are thirsty. [12] In the cities the wounded and dying cry out, but God ignores their prayers. [13] There are those who reject the light; they don't understand it or go where it leads. [14] At dawn the murderer gets up and goes out to kill the poor, and at night he steals. [15] The adulterer waits for twilight to come; he covers his face so that no one can see him. [16] At night thieves break into houses, but by day they hide and avoid the light. [17] They fear the light of day, but darkness holds no terror for them. [18] The wicked are swept away by floods, and the land they own is under God's curse; they no longer go to work in their vineyards. [19] As snow vanishes in heat and drought, so sinners vanish from the land of the living. [20] Not even their mothers remember them now; they are eaten by worms and destroyed like fallen trees. [21] That happens because they mistreated widows and showed no kindness to childless women. [22] God, in his strength, destroys the mighty; God acts-and the wicked die. [23] God may let them live secure, but keeps an eye on them all the time. [24] For a while the wicked prosper, but then they wither like weeds, like stalks of grain that have been cut down. [25] Can anyone deny that this is so? Can anyone prove that my words are not true?