| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Why doesn’t the Almighty bring the wicked to judgment? Why must the godly wait for him in vain? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They take the orphan’s donkey and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways or stay in its paths. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No one will see me then.’ He hides his face so no one will know him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Thieves break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“But they disappear like foam down a river. Everything they own is cursed, and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The grave consumes sinners just as drought and heat consume snow. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Their own mothers will forget them. Maggots will find them sweet to eat. No one will remember them. Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They cheat the woman who has no son to help her. They refuse to help the needy widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“God, in his power, drags away the rich. They may rise high, but they have no assurance of life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?” |
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