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¹ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know Him see His days?² There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.⁴ They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; ⁶ They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.⁷ They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor;¹⁰ So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;¹¹ They make oil within the rows of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.¹² From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out;

¹³ These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.¹⁴ The murderer riseth with the light, to kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying: 'No eye shall see me'; ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses; they shut themselves up in the day-time; they know not the light.¹⁷ For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

¹⁸ He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; ¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned.²⁰ The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; ²¹ He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow.²² He draweth away the mighty also by his power; he riseth up, and he trusteth not his own 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, and they are gone; yea, they are brought low, they are gathered in as all others, ²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?