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¹ "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?² Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.⁴ They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.⁵ Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.⁶ They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.⁷ They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.⁹ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)¹⁰ They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;¹¹ among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.¹² From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

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

¹⁸ "You say, "They are swiftly carried away upon 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 Sheol those who have sinned.²⁰ The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.'²¹ "They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.²² Yet God 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 eyes are upon their ways.²⁴ They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.²⁵ If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?"