ECB(i)
5 Is not your evil great? - your perversity endless?
6 Gratuitously you take a pledge from your brother and strip the naked of their clothing:
7 you give the languid no water to drink; you withhold bread from the famished.
8 The man of arm has the earth and the exalted face settles therein:
9 you send widows away empty and crush the arms of the orphan.
10 So snares surround you and sudden dread terrifies you:
11 or darkness, you see not; and abundance of waters cover you.
12 Is not Elohah in the height of the heavens? See the head of the stars - how high!
13 And you say, El knows what? Judges he through the dripping darkness?
14 Thick clouds are his covering that he not be seen; and he walks in the circle of the heavens.
15 Regard you the eternal way which mischievous men have trodden?
16 - who were plucked from time? - whose foundation was poured with a flood?
17 Who says to El, Turn from us? What does Shadday for them?
18 Yet he fills their houses with good; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me:
19 the just see and cheer; and the innocent deride.
20 Surely our opponent is not cut off, and fire consumes them who remain.
21 I beseech, be accustomed with him and shalam; thereby good comes to you.
22 I beseech you, receive the torah from his mouth and set his sayings in your heart.
23 If you return to Shadday, you are built up; remove wickedness far from your tents:
24 so as to set your diggings as dust - as the rocks of the wadies of Ophir.
25 Yes, Shadday becomes your diggings and silver your strengths.
26 For then you have your delight in Shadday - lift your face to Elohah.
27 Intreat to him and he hears you shalam your vows:
28 and cut a saying and it rises to you; and the light illuminates your ways.
29 When abased, say, This is arrogance! - and he saves the downcast eye;
30 he rescues the island of the innocent; it escapes by the purity of your palms.