Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

 2 Some remove the ^alandmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

 6 They reap every one his ^acorn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God ^alayeth not folly to them.

 13 They are of those that ^arebel against the ^blight; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the ^atwilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the ^alight.

 17 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 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

 19 ^aDrought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

 20 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.