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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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"Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know Him not, see His days?
2 There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
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Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.
4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
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They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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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Behold, as wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
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They reap every one his corn in the field, and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
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They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
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They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry,
11 They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
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who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God layeth not folly to them.
13 “There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
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"They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
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The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, `No eye shall see me,' and disguiseth his face.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
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In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they know not the light.
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
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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.
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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"He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth; he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
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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.
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
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He evilly treateth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow.
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
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He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
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Though it be given him to be in safety whereon he resteth, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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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They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
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And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?"
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