New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 24
8 They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home.
9 “The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan.
10 The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.
11 They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning.
13 “Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways or stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief.
15 The adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No one will see me then.’ He hides his face so no one will know him.
16 Thieves break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light.
17 The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.
18 “But they disappear like foam down a river. Everything they own is cursed, and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.
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