Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Some* remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof*.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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.
They reap every one* his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have* no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause him* to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from* the hungry;
Which* make oil within their walls, and* tread their* winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them*.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his* face.
In the dark they dig through houses, which* they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
He is* swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth* the grave those which* have sinned.
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.
He evil entreateth the barren that* beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man* is sure of life.
Though* it be given him to be* in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are* upon their ways.
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.
And if it be* not so* now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?