LEB(i)
1 "Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and why do not those who know him see his days?
2 They* remove border stones; they seize flocks, and they pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of orphans; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.
4 They thrust the poor off the road; the needy of the earth hide themselves together.*
5 "Look, like wild donkeys in the desert they* go out to their labor as searchers for the prey; the wilderness is* ⌊their⌋* food for the young.
6 They reap their* fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They spend the night naked, ⌊without⌋* clothing, and they have no garment in the cold.
8 They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,* and they cling to the rock ⌊without⌋* refuge.
9 "They* snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy.*
10 They* go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves.*
11 Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the presses, but* they are thirsty.
12 From the city people groan, and the throat* of the wounded cries for help; yet* God does not ⌊regard it as unseemly⌋.*
13 "Those are among the ones rebelling against the light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.
14 ⌊At dusk⌋* the murderer rises; he kills the needy and the poor, and in the night he is like a* thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying, ⌊'No eye will see me,'⌋* and he places a covering on his face.
16 He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in— they do not know the light
17 because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
18 "He himself* is swift on the water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. ⌊No one turns toward the path of their vineyards⌋.*
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those* who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a* tree.
21 He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child, and does no good to the widow.
22 Yet* he* carries off the tyrants by his strength; if he rises up, then* he* cannot be certain of life.*
23 He* gives security to him, and he is* supported, but* his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted a little while, then* ⌊they are gone⌋.* And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others, and like the heads of grain they wither away.
25 "And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"