CLV(i)
5 Is it not because your evil is great, And there is no end to your depravities?
6 For you have taken pledge from your brothers gratuitously, And you have stripped the garments of the naked.
7 No water have you given the faint to drink, And from the hungry have you withheld bread.
8 The man of the arm of power, he has the land, And he of repute is dwelling in it.
9 Widows you have sent away empty, And the arms of orphans you have crushed.
10 Therefore, snares are round about you, And sudden alarm fills you with panic;"
11 Light has become darkness so you cannot see, And a concourse of water is covering you.
12 Is not Eloah in the loftiness of the heavens? See the topmost stars, how high they are.
13 Yet you say, What does El know? Can He judge through murkiness?
14 Thick clouds are a concealment for Him, so that He cannot see, And He walks about the circle of the heavens.
15 Are you keeping the path of the eon of old That the men of lawlessness tread,
16 Who were arrested when not yet their time, When a stream was poured over their foundation,