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24:1  “Why are times not kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
24:2  The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
24:3  They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
24:4  They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
24:5  Like wild asses in the desert they go out to their toil, scavenging in the wasteland food for their young.
24:6  They reap in a field not their own, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
24:7  They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
24:8  They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
24:9  “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
24:10  They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
24:11  between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.
24:12  From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
24:13  “There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways and do not stay in its paths.
24:14  The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy and in the night is like a thief.
24:15  The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he disguises his face.
24:16  In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
24:17  For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
24:18  “Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
24:19  Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
24:20  The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.
24:21  “They harm the childless woman and do no good to the widow.
24:22  Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
24:23  He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.
24:24  They are exalted a little while and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
24:25  If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”