What does Job Chapter 24 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Job says times are not hidden from the Almighty, but those who know Him do not know His days. He describes some who remove landmarks, take flocks by force and feed them, drive away the fatherless person's ass and take a widow's ox for a pledge. They overturn the way of the poor and oppress the meek. He then describes others going to work like wild asses in the desert and watching for prey to obtain bread for their children. The passage says they reap a field not their own and gather the vintage of a person they violently oppressed; it does not identify these workers as the oppressed vineyard owner's servants.

Job describes men sent away naked, without covering in the cold, wet with mountain showers and embracing stones. The fatherless are violently robbed, the poor stripped, and ears of corn taken from the hungry and unclothed. He describes rest at noon among the stores of those who suffer thirst after treading winepresses. From cities men groan and the wounded soul cries out; Job says God does not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

His speech turns to those rebellious to light and its ways. A murderer rises at daybreak, kills the needy and poor, and is a thief at night. An adulterer watches darkness, covers his face and says no eye will see him. Houses are dug through in the dark, as appointed during the day; morning's sudden appearance is the shadow of death to those walking in darkness as in light.

Job says the man is light on the face of water, and wishes his earthly portion cursed and his path kept from vineyards. He says to let him pass from snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell; to let mercy forget him, worms be his sweetness, remembrance cease and him be broken like an unfruitful tree. He says the man fed the barren woman, did no good to the widow, pulled down the strong and would not trust his life when rising. Job says God gave him place for penance which he abuses in pride, while His eyes are on his ways. Briefly lifted up, they will be brought down and broken like tops of ears of corn. Job challenges anyone to prove him a liar and set his words before God.

The edition's separate heading says providence permits the wicked to continue long in sins and punishes them in another life. That interpretation remains distinct from Job's speech.