VIN(i)
1 "Why doesn't the Almighty reserve time for judgment? and why don't those who know him perceive his days?
2 They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of orphans; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.
4 They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding.
5 "Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.
6 They reap fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They spend the night naked, without clothing with no covering against the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of hills, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.
9 "The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.
10 They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
11 They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 From the city, dying men groan aloud, and the wounded cries out for help, but God charges no one with wrong.
13 These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
14 With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh 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 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
17 "For deep darkness is morning to all of them. They are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18 "Swift are they on the face of the waters. Their portion in the land is cursed! No treader turns toward their vineyards.
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those who have sinned.
20 "The womb forgets them. The worm finds them sweet. They are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.
21 "They prey on the barren woman, and does no favors for widows.
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23 He gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
24 They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.
25 "And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"