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1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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"Why are times not kept by Shaddai? Why do those who know him not see his days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
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There are those who move boundary markers; they carry off flocks and pasture them;
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; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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They push the needy out of the way -the poor of the land are forced into hiding;
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
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like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
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They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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wet with mountain rain, and hugging the rock for lack of shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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"There are those who pluck orphans from the breast and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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between these men's rows [of olives], they make oil; treading their winepresses, they 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.
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Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!
13 They are of 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 -they don't know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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The murderer rises with the light to kill the poor and needy; while at night he is like a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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The eye of the adulterer too waits for twilight; he thinks, 'No eye will see me'; but [to be sure], he covers his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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When it's dark, they break into houses; in the daytime, they stay out of sight. [None of them] know the light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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For to all of them deep darkness is like morning, for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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"May they be scum on the surface of the water, may their share of land be cursed, may no one turn on the way of their vineyards,
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
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may drought and heat steal away their snow water and Sh'ol 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.
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May the womb forget them, may worms find them sweet, may they no longer be remembered -thus may iniquity be snapped like a stick.
21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
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They devour childless women and give no help to widows.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
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"Yet God keeps pulling the mighty along -they get up, even when not trusting their own lives.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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However, even if God lets them rest in safety, his eyes are on 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 other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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They are exalted for a little while; and then they are gone, brought low, gathered in like all others, shriveled up like ears of grain.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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"And even if it isn't so now, still no one can prove me a liar and show that my words are worthless."