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1“Why are times not kept by the Almighty,[#Ps 31.15; Jer 46.10; #24.1 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai]
and why do those who know him never see his days?
2The wicked remove landmarks;[#Deut 19.14; 27.17; 28.31; #24.2 Gk: Heb they]
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3They drive away the donkey of the orphan;[#Ex 22.26; Deut 24.6, 10, 12, 17; Job 22.6]
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4They thrust the needy off the road;[#Deut 24.14; Prov 28.28]
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5Like wild asses in the desert[#Job 39.5–8; Ps 104.23]
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.
6They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7They lie all night naked, without clothing,[#Ex 22.26; Job 22.6]
and have no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the rain of the mountains[#Lam 4.5]
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
9“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast[#Deut 24.17]
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
10They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11between their terraces they press out oil;[#24.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.
12From the city the dying groan,[#Job 9.23, 24; Jer 51.52; Ezek 26.15]
and the throat of the wounded cries for help;
yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
13“There are those who rebel against the light,[#Isa 5.20; Jn 3.19]
who are not acquainted with its ways
and do not stay in its paths.
14The murderer rises at dusk[#Ps 10.8; Mic 2.1]
to kill the poor and needy
and in the night is like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,[#Ps 10.11; Prov 7.9]
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he disguises his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses;[#Ex 22.2]
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
17For deep darkness is morning to all of them;[#Ps 91.5]
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18“Swift are they on the face of the waters;[#Job 9.26; Ps 90.5]
their portion in the land is cursed;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;[#Job 6.16, 17; 21.13]
so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets them;[#Ps 31.12; Prov 10.7]
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.
21“They harm the childless woman[#Job 22.9; #24.21 Gk Tg: Heb feed on or associate with]
and do no good to the widow.
22Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;[#Deut 28.66; #24.22 Heb he]
they rise up when they despair of life.
23He gives them security, and they are supported;[#Job 11.11; 12.6]
his eyes are upon their ways.
24They are exalted a little while and then are gone;[#Job 14.21; Ps 37.10; Isa 17.5]
they wither and fade like the mallow;
they are cut off like the heads of grain.
25If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”