1Why, seeing times [are] not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2[Some] remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and [their] feed.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5Behold, [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.
6They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11[Who] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
17For 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.
18He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: [so doth] the grave [those who] have sinned.
20The 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.
21He oppresseth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
23[Though] it is given him [to be] in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
24They 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.
25And if [it is] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?