Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Someremove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feedthereof.
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,aswild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wildernessyieldethfood for themandfortheirchildren.
They reapevery onehis corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, thatthey haveno 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 causehimto go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaffromthe hungry;
Whichmake oil within their walls,andtreadtheirwinepresses, and suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not follyto 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 disguisethhisface.
In the dark they dig through houses,whichthey had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
For the morningisto them even as the shadow of death: ifoneknowthem, they are inthe terrors of the shadow of death.
Heisswift 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 doththe gravethose whichhave 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 barrenthatbeareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and nomanis sure of life.
Thoughit be given himto bein safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyesareupon their ways.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as allother, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
And ifit benotsonow, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?