Why,
seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do
they that know him not see his days?
02 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take
away flocks, and feed thereof.
03 They drive away the ass of the fatherless,
they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
04 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor
of the earth hide themselves together.
05 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they
forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey:
the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for
their children.
06 They reap every one his corn in the field: and
they gather the vintage of the wicked.
07 They cause the naked to lodge without
clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
08 They are wet with the showers of the
mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a
shelter.
09 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and
take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing,
and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread
their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul
of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not
folly to them.
13 They are of those that rebel against the
light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide
in the paths thereof.
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14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the
poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the
twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and
disguiseth his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which
they had marked for themselves in the daytime:
they know not the light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow
of death: if one know them, they are in the
terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is
cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of
the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so
doth the grave those which have sinned.
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.
21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth
not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he
riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety,
whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their
ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are
gone and brought low; they are taken out of the
way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the
ears of corn.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a
liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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