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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Like 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. |
| 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 because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They 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.' |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?" |
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