Job 24:1-8 (NRSV)
1"Why
are times not kept by the Almighty,
and why do those who know him never
see his days?
2The wicked remove landmarks;
they seize
flocks and pasture them.
3They drive away the donkey of the
orphan;
they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4They thrust
the needy off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5Like wild asses in the desert
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.
6They
reap in a field not their own
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering
in the cold.
8They are wet with the rain of the mountains,
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
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