Job 24:2-16

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Job 24:2-16

2Men move boundary stones;
they pasture stolen flocks.
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless
and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4They push the needy off the road
and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go to work foraging for food;
the wasteland is food for their children.
6They gather fodder in the fields
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7Without clothing, they spend the night naked;
they have no covering against the cold.
8Drenched by mountain rains,
they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11They crush olives within their walls;
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12From the city, men groan,
and the souls of the wounded cry out,
yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13Then there are those who rebel against the light,
not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises
to kill the poor and needy;
in the night he is like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight.
Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves in,
never to experience the light.
— Job 24:2-16

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