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| [1]Why, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? |
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| [2]Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed. |
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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 desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. |
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| [6]They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. |
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| [7]They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they 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]They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. |
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| [10]They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; |
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| [11]Who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. |
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| [12]Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. |
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| [13]They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. |
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| [14]The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night 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 disguiseth his face. |
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| [16]In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light. |
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| [17]For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shades of death. |
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| [18]He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. |
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| [19]Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned. |
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| [20]The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. |
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| [21]He oppresseth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. |
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| [22]He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. |
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| [23]Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. |
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| [24]They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. |
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| [25]And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth? |
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