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1 "Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and [why] do not [those who] 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 border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
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There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.
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They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They thrust [the] poor off the road; [the] needy of [the] earth hide themselves together.
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They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 "Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.
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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 their fodder in the field, and they glean [in the] vineyard of [the] wicked.
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They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They spend the night naked, {without} clothing, and [they] have no garment 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 from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge.
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They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 "They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry [the] sheaves.
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Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread [the] presses, but they are thirsty.
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They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.
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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 "Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.
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“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 {At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like 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 waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places 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 He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [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 because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.
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For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 "He himself [is] swift on [the] water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their 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 snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who 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 forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like 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] feeds on [the] barren, [who] does not have a child, and does no 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 Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain 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 He gives security to him, and he is supported, 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 a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.
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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 "And if [it is] not [so], then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"
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“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
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