The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
1 Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
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“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2 They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
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There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
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They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
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They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.
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Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6 They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;
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They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock ...
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They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
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Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and God imputeth not the impiety.
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The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face.
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The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
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In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17 For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
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For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.
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“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.
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As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
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The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21 He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:
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They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
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But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23 God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
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He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25 If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
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