24"Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?H6256H6845H7706H3045H2372H3117

2Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.H5381H1367H1497H5739H7462

3They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.H5090H2543H3490H2254H490H7794H2254

4They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.H5186H34H1870H6041H6035H776H2244H3162

5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.H6501H4057H3318H6467H7836H2964H6160H3899H5288

6They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.H7114H7114H1098H7704H3953H3754H7563

7Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.H6174H3885H3830H3682H7135

8They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.H7372H2230H2022H2263H6697H4268

9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.H1497H3490H7699H2254H6041

10Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.H1980H6174H3830H5375H6016H7457

11They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.H6671H996H7791H1869H3342H6770

12The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.H4962H5008H5892H5315H2491H7768H433H7760H8604

13"There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.H4775H216H5234H1870H3427H5410

14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.H7523H6965H216H6991H6041H34H3915H1590

15The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.H5869H5003H8104H5399H559H5869H7789H5643H7760H6440

16In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.H2822H2864H1004H2856H3119H3045H216

17For all of them, deep darkness is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.H1242H3162H6757H5234H1091H6757

18"Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.H7031H6440H4325H2513H7043H776H6437H1870H3754

19As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.H6723H2527H1497H7950H4325H7585H2398

20The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.H7358H7911H7415H4988H2142H5766H7665H6086

21They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.H7462H6135H3205H3190H490

22But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.H4900H47H3581H6965H539H2416

23He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.H5414H983H8172H5869H1870

24For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.H7426H4592H4355H7092H1870H5243H7218H7641

25"If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?"H645H7760H3576H7760H4405H408