Job 24:1-25 MEV

[1] "Since times of judgment are not kept by the Almighty, why do they who know Him not see His days? [2] Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them. [3] They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. [4] They turn away the needy; the poor of the earth are forced to hide. [5] Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children. [6] They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked. [7] They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold. [8] They are wet with the showers of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. [9] They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor. [10] They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry. [11] They press out oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst. [12] Men groan from outside the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out; yet God does not charge them with wrong. [13] "They are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths. [14] The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief. [15] Also the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face. [16] In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light. [17] For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; if someone recognizes them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. [18] "He is swift as the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn toward the way of the vineyards. [19] Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so the grave consumes those who have sinned. [20] The womb will forget him; the worm will feed sweetly on him; he will be remembered no more, and wickedness will be broken like a tree. [21] He preys on the barren who do not bear, and does no good for the widow. [22] But God draws the mighty away with His power; He rises up, and no man is sure of life. [23] He gives them security, and they rely on it; yet His eyes are on their ways. [24] They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way like all others and cut off as the tops of the grain. [25] "If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?"