Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
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"Why are times not kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
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The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away 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 overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
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They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
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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 reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
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They reap in a field not their own and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
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They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
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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 violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
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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 From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
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They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11 They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.
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between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
12 Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.
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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 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his 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 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he 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 The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover 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 He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known 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 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
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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 light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.
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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 Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
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Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
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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 hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.
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"They harm the childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
22 He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his 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 God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.
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He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.
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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 And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?
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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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