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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.) |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’ |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They 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. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?” |
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