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¹ "Why are not times kept by Shaddai,
and why do not those who know him see his days?
² They^[a] remove border stones;
they seize flocks, and they pasture them.
³ They drive away the donkey of orphans;
they take the widow's ox as a pledge.
⁴ They thrust the poor off the road;
the needy of the earth hide themselves together.^[b]
5 "Look, like wild donkeys in the desert
they^[c] go out to their labor as searchers for the prey;
the wilderness is^[d] their^[e] food for the young.
⁶ They reap their^[f] fodder in the field,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
⁷ They spend the night naked, without^[g] clothing,
and they have no garment in the cold.
⁸ They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,^[h]
and they cling to the rock without^[i] refuge.
⁹ "They^[j] snatch the orphan from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the needy.^[k]
10 They^[l] go about naked, without clothing,
and hungry, they carry the sheaves.^[m]
11 Between their terraces they press out oil;
they tread the presses, but^[n] they are thirsty.
¹² From the city people groan,
and the throat^[o] of the wounded cries for help;
yet^[p] God does not regard it as unseemly.^[q]
13 "Those are among the ones rebelling against the light;
they do not recognize his ways,
and they do not stay in his paths.
¹⁴ At dusk^[r] the murderer rises;
he kills the needy and the poor,
and in the night he is like a^[s] thief.
¹⁵ And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,'^[t]
and he places a covering on his face.
¹⁶ He digs through houses in the darkness;
by day they shut themselves in—
they do not know the light
¹⁷ because morning likewise is to them deep darkness;
indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
¹⁸ "He himself^[u] is swift on the water's surface;
their portion is cursed in the land.
No one turns toward the path of their vineyards.^[v]
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters,
like Sheol snatches away those^[w] who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets him.
The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered,
and wickedness is broken like a^[x] tree.
²¹ He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child,
and does no good to the widow.
²² Yet^[y] he^[z] carries off the tyrants by his strength;
if he rises up, then^[aa] he^[ab] cannot be certain of life.^[ac]
23 He^[ad] gives security to him, and he is^[ae] supported,
but^[af] his eyes are upon their ways.
²⁴ They are exalted a little while, then^[ag] they are gone.^[ah]
And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others,
and like the heads of grain they wither away.
²⁵ "And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar
and reduce my word to nothing?"