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Why, seeing times[H6256] are not hidden[H6845] from the Almighty[H7706], do they that know[H3045] him not see[H2372] his days?[H3117]
2
Some remove[H5381] the landmarks[H1367]; they violently take away[H1497]flocks[H5739], and feed[H7462] thereof.
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They drive away[H5090] the ass[H2543] of the fatherless[H3490], they take[H2254] the widow's ox[H7794] for a pledge[H2254].
4
They turn[H5186] the needy[H34] out of the way[H1870]: the poor[H6041] of the earth[H776]hide[H2244] themselves together[H3162].
5
Behold, as wild asses[H6501] in the desert[H4057], go they forth[H3318] to their work[H6467]; rising betimes[H7836] for a prey[H2964]: the wilderness[H6160] yieldeth food[H3899] for them and for their children[H5288].
6
They reap[H7114] every one his corn[H1098] in the field[H7704]: and they gather[H3953] the vintage[H3754] of the wicked[H7563].
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They cause the naked[H6174] to lodge[H3885] without clothing[H3830], that they have no covering[H3682] in the cold[H7135].
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They are wet[H7372] with the showers[H2230] of the mountains[H2022], and embrace[H2263] the rock[H6697] for want of a shelter[H4268].
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They pluck[H1497] the fatherless[H3490] from the breast[H7699], and take a pledge[H2254] of the poor[H6041].
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They cause him to go[H1980]naked[H6174] without clothing[H3830], and they take away[H5375] the sheaf[H6016] from the hungry[H7457];
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Which make oil[H6671]within[H996] their walls[H7791], and tread[H1869] their winepresses[H3342], and suffer thirst[H6770].
12Men[H4962]groan[H5008] from out[H7768] of the city[H5892], and the soul[H5315] of the wounded[H2491] crieth out[H7768]: yet God[H433]layeth[H7760] not folly[H8604] to them.
13
They are of those that rebel[H4775] against the light[H216]; they know[H5234] not the ways[H1870] thereof, nor abide[H3427] in the paths[H5410] thereof.
14
The murderer[H7523]rising[H6965] with the light[H216]killeth[H6991] the poor[H6041] and needy[H34], and in the night[H3915] is as a thief[H1590].
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The eye[H5869] also of the adulterer[H5003]waiteth[H8104] for the twilight[H5399], saying[H559], No eye[H5869] shall see[H7789] me: and disguiseth[H5643] his face[H6440].
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In the dark[H2822] they dig through[H2864]houses[H1004], which they had marked[H2856] for themselves in the daytime[H3119]: they know[H3045] not the light[H216].
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For the morning[H1242] is to them even as[H3162] the shadow of death[H6757]: if one know[H5234] them, they are in the terrors[H1091] of the shadow of death[H6757].
18
He is swift[H7031] as the waters[H6440]; their portion[H2513] is cursed[H7043] in the earth[H776]: he beholdeth[H6437] not the way[H1870] of the vineyards[H3754].
19Drought[H6723] and heat[H2527]consume[H1497] the snow[H7950]waters[H4325]: so doth the grave[H7585] those which have sinned[H2398].
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The womb[H7358] shall forget[H7911] him; the worm[H7415] shall feed sweetly[H4988] on him; he shall be no more remembered[H2142]; and wickedness[H5766] shall be broken[H7665] as a tree[H6086].
21
He evil entreateth[H7462] the barren[H6135] that beareth[H3205] not: and doeth not good[H3190] to the widow[H490].
22
He draweth[H4900] also the mighty[H47] with his power[H3581]: he riseth up[H6965], and no man is sure[H539] of life[H2416].
23
Though it be given[H5414] him to be in safety[H983], whereon he resteth[H8172]; yet his eyes[H5869] are upon their ways[H1870].
24
They are exalted[H7426] for a little while[H4592], but are gone and brought low[H4355]; they are taken out[H7092] of the way[H1870] as all other, and cut off[H5243] as the tops[H7218] of the ears of corn[H7641].
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And if it be not so now[H645], who will make[H7760] me a liar[H3576], and make[H7760] my speech[H4405] nothing worth?[H408]