1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those who know Him not see his days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently tear away flocks, and feed.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the Earth hide themselves together.
5 as wild donkeys in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising early and diligently for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6 They reap everyone his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They tear away the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the inner self of the wounded cries out: yet God doesn't charge their folly to them.
13 They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not the ways, nor abide in the paths.
14 The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the Earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat tear away the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he no longer shall be remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21 He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
22 He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it is given to him to be in safety, on which he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 And, if it is not so now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?