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"Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days? |
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Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. |
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They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge. |
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They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together. |
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Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children. |
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They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked. |
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They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold. |
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They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter. |
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. |
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They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves. |
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They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. |
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From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing. |
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There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. |
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Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. |
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And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask. |
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In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. |
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For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness. |
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"You say, 'He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard. |
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The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned. |
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The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down. |
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He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well. |
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But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life. |
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God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways. |
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They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.' |
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"If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?" |
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