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"Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? |
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Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. |
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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. |
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They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. |
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Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children. |
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They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. |
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They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. |
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They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter. |
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(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.) |
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They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves; |
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among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst. |
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From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong. |
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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. |
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The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief. |
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The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he veils his face. |
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In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light. |
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For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. |
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"You say, 'Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards. |
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Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. |
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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.' |
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"They wrong the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow. |
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Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life. |
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He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways. |
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They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain. |
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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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