Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,
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"Why are times not kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
2 while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
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The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.
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They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
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They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to little ones.
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Like wild asses in the desert they go out to their toil, scavenging in the wasteland food for their young.
6 They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.
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They reap in a field not their own and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
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They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
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They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
9 They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
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"There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast, and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
10 And they have wrongfully caused to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
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They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11 They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.
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between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
12 Who have cast forth poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
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From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
13 Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their paths?
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"There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
14 But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:
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The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.
15 and the eye of the adulterer has watched the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.
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The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, "No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face.
16 In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.
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In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
17 For the morning is to them all the shadow of death, for will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
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For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18 He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.
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"Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19 withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
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Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
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The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.
21 For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
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"They harm the childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
22 And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, will not feel secure of his own life.
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Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
23 When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.
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He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.
24 For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.
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They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
25 But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?
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If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?"
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