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1 Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
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1 "Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
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2 The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
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2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
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3 The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
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3 They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.
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4 They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
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4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
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5 Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.
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5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
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6 In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.
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6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
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7 The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
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7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
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8 From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock.
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8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
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9 They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
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9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
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10 Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.
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10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
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11 Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.
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11 They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
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12 Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
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12 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.
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13 They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.
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13 "There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
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14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
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14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.
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15 And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.
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15 The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.
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16 He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
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16 In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
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17 When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
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17 For all of them, deep darkness is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
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18 Light he [is] on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
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18 "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.
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19 Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol [those who] have sinned.
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19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
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20 Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten [on] him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
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20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
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21 Treating evil the barren [who] beareth not, And [to] the widow he doth no good,
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21 They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.
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22 And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life.
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22 But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
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23 He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes [are] on their ways.
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23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
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24 High they were [for] a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all [others] they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.
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24 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.
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25 And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?
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25 "If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?"
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