English Standard Version

Job 24:7-18 English Standard Version (ESV)

7. They lie all night naked, without clothing,and have no covering in the cold.

8. They are wet with the rain of the mountainsand cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

9. (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,and they take a pledge against the poor.)

10. They go about naked, without clothing;hungry, they carry the sheaves;

11. among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil;they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

12. From out of the city the dying groan,and the soul of the wounded cries for help;yet God charges no one with wrong.

13. “There are those who rebel against the light,who are not acquainted with its ways,and do not stay in its paths.

14. The murderer rises before it is light,that he may kill the poor and needy,and in the night he is like a thief.

15. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,saying, ‘No eye will see me’;and he veils his face.

16. In the dark they dig through houses;by day they shut themselves up;they do not know the light.

17. For deep darkness is morning to all of them;for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

18. “You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;their portion is cursed in the land;no treader turns toward their vineyards.