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¹ "Why are ^(a)not times of judgment ^(b)kept by the Almighty,
    and why do those who know him never see his ^(c)days?
² Some move ^(d)landmarks;
    they seize flocks and pasture them.
³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
    they ^(e)take the widow's ox for a pledge.
⁴ They ^(f)thrust the poor off the road;
    the poor of the earth ^(g)all hide themselves.
⁵ Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
    the poor^{[a] (h)}go out to their toil, ⁽ⁱ⁾seeking game;
    the wasteland yields food for their children.
⁶ They gather their^[b] fodder in the field,
    and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
⁷ They ^(j)lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.
⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains
    and ^(k)cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
⁹ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and they take a pledge against the poor.)
¹⁰ They go about naked, without clothing;
    hungry, they ^(l)carry the sheaves;
¹¹ among the olive rows of the wicked^[c] they make oil;
    they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
¹² From out of the city the dying^[d] groan,
    and the soul of ^(m)the wounded cries for help;
    yet God charges no one with ⁽ⁿ⁾wrong.

¹³ "There are those who rebel ^(o)against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways,
    and do not stay in its paths.
¹⁴ The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he ^(p)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer also waits for ^(q)the twilight,
    saying, ‘No ^(r)eye will see me';
    and he veils his face.
¹⁶ In the dark they ^(s)dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.
¹⁷ For ^(t)deep darkness is morning to all of them;
    for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

¹⁸ "You say, ^(u)‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
    their portion is cursed in the land;
    no treader turns toward their vineyards.
¹⁹ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
    so does ^(v)Sheol those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are ^(w)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like ^(x)a tree.'

²¹ "They wrong the barren, childless woman,
    and do no good to the widow.
²² Yet God^[e] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
    they rise up when they despair of life.
²³ He gives them security, and they are supported,
    and his ^(y)eyes are upon their ways.
²⁴ They are exalted ^(z)a little while, and then ^(aa)are gone;
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
    they are ^(ab)cut off like the heads of grain.
²⁵ If it is ^(ac)not so, who will prove me a liar
    and show that there is nothing in what I say?"