| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?” |
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