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| [1]How should not the times be hid from the Almighty, seeing that they which know him, see not his days? |
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| [2]Some remove the landmarks that rob the flocks and feed thereof. |
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| [3]They lead away the ass of the fatherless: and take the widow's ox to pledge. |
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| [4]They make the poor to turn out of the way, so that the poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
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| [5]Behold, others as wild asses in the wilderness, go forth to their business, and rise early for a prey: the wilderness giveth him and his children food. |
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| [6]They reap his provision in the field, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked. |
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| [7]They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without covering in the cold. |
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| [8]They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and they embrace the rock for want of a covering. |
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| [9]They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take the pledge of the poor. |
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| [10]They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the gleaning from the hungry. |
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| [11]They that make oil between their walls, and tread their wine presses, suffer thirst. |
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| [12]Men cry out of the city, and the souls of the slain cry out: yet God doth not charge them with folly. |
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| [13]These are they, that abhor the light: they know not the ways thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof. |
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| [14]The murderer riseth early and killeth the poor and the needy: and in the night he is as a thief. |
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| [15]The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and saith, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face. |
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| [16]They dig through houses in the dark, which they marked for themselves in the day: they know not the light. |
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| [17]But the morning is even to them as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. |
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| [18]He is swift upon the waters: their portion shall be cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyards. |
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| [19]As the dry ground and heat consume the snow waters, so shall the grave the sinners. |
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| [20]The pitiful man shall forget him: the worm shall feel his sweetness: he shall be no more remembered, and the wicked shall be broken like a tree. |
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| [21]He doth evil entreat the barren, that doth not bear, neither doeth he good to the widow. |
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| [22]He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth up, none is sure of life. |
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| [23]Though men give him assurance to be in safety, yet his eyes are upon their ways. |
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| [24]They are exalted for a little, but they are gone, and are brought low as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the top of an ear of corn. |
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| [25]But if it be not so, where is he? Or who will prove me a liar, and make my words of no value? |
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