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1“Why are not times kept by Shaddai,
and why do not those who know him see his days?
2They remove border stones;[#Or “Some” (NASU, ESV) or “Men” (NIV, NET)]
they seize flocks, and they pasture them.
3They drive away the donkey of orphans;
they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
4They thrust the poor off the road;
the needy of the earth hide themselves together.
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.
6They reap their fodder in the field,[#Hebrew “his”]
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7They spend the night naked, without clothing,[#Literally “from not”]
and they have no garment in the cold.
8They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,[#Or “from the mountain rainstorm”]
and they cling to the rock without refuge.
9“They snatch the orphan from the breast,[#That is, those who oppress the poor]
and they take a pledge against the needy.
10They go about naked, without clothing,[#That is, the poor]
and hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11Between their terraces they press out oil;
they tread the presses, but they are thirsty.
12From the city people groan,
and the throat of the wounded cries for help;
yet God does not regard it as unseemly.
13“Those are among the ones rebelling against the light;
they do not recognize his ways,
and they do not stay in his paths.
14At dusk the murderer rises;[#Literally “At the light”]
he kills the needy and the poor,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he places a covering on his face.
16He digs through houses in the darkness;
by day they shut themselves in—
they do not know the light
17because morning likewise is to them deep darkness;
indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
18“He himself is swift on the water’s surface;[#Emphatic personal pronoun]
their portion is cursed in the land.
No one turns toward the path of their vineyards.
19Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters,
like Sheol snatches away those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets him.
The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered,
and wickedness is broken like a tree.
21He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child,
and does no good to the widow.
22Yet he carries off the tyrants by his strength;[#Hebrew “And”; #The probable antecedent is God]
if he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.
23He gives security to him, and he is supported,[#The probable antecedent is God; #Or “they are”]
but his eyes are upon their ways.
24They are exalted a little while, then they are gone.[#Literally “and”; #Literally “he is not”]
And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others,
and like the heads of grain they wither away.
25“And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar
and reduce my word to nothing?”