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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Why doesn't the Almighty reserve time for judgment? and why don't those who know him perceive his days? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They reap fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They spend the night naked, without clothing, with no covering against the cold. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are wet from mountain rains; without shelter, they cling to a rock. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They wander around naked, without clothes; hungry, though they carry sheaves of grain. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12From the city, dying men groan aloud, and the wounded cries out for help, but God charges no one with wrong. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Then there are those who rebel against the light; they are not acquainted with its ways; and they don't stay on its course. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, 'No eye is watching me' while he veils his face. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They break into houses in the dark; during the day they remained sealed in. They don't know daylight. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"They prey on the barren woman, and do no favors for widows. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22God prolongs the life of the strong by his power, but they get up in the morning without purpose in life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He gives them security and financial support, but he watches everything they do. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?" |
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