Job 24:2-16

JuliaSmith(i) 2 They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed. 3 They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox. 4 They will turn the needy from the Way: the poor of the earth hid themselves together. 5 Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young. 6 In the field they will harvest his meslin, and they will glean the vintage of the unjust one. 7 They will cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and no covering in the cold. 8 They will be wet from the pouring rains of the mountains, and they embraced the rock from no shelter. 9 They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor. 10 They caused the naked to go without clothing, and from the hungry they took away the sheaf; 11 Between their walls they will press out oil; they trod their wine-presses, and they will thirst 12 From the city men will groan, and the soul of the wounded will cry out: and God will not set folly. 13 They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths. 14 The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face. 16 To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light