1. Why, 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.
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 desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness {yieldeth} food for them {and} for {their} children.
6. They reap {every one} his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that {they 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. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10. They 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.
12. Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly {to them}.
13. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
14. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth {his} face.
16. In the dark they dig through houses, {which} they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
17. For 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.
18. He {is} swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19. Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: {so doth} the grave {those who} have sinned.
20. The 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.
21. He oppresseth the barren {that} beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22. He 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.
24. They 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.
25. And if {it is} not {so} now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?
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