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| [1]Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know Him see His days? |
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| [2]There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them. |
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| [3]They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. |
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| [4]They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
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| [5]Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; the desert yieldeth them bread for their children. |
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| [6]They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked. |
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| [7]They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. |
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| [8]They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. |
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| [9]There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; |
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| [10]So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves; |
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| [11]They make oil within the rows of these men; they tread thei winepresses, and suffer thirst. |
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| [12]From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness. |
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| [13]These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. |
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| [14]The murderer riseth with the light, to kill the poor and 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, saying: 'No eye shall see me'; and he putteth a covering on his face. |
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| [16]In the dark they dig through houses; they shut themselves up in the day-time; they know not the light. |
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| [17]For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death. |
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| [18]He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turneth not by the way of the vineyards. |
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| [19]Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned. |
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| [20]The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree. |
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| [21]He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow. |
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| [22]He draweth away the mighty also by his power; he riseth up, and he trusteth not his own life. |
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| [23]Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth, yet His eyes are upon their ways. |
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| [24]They are exalted for a little while, and they are gone; yea, they are brought low, they are gathered in as all others, and wither as the tops of the ears of corn. |
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| [25]And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? |
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