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📚✭“Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, why do those who know him never see his days? 2 📚✭Some men remove boundary stones. They take away flocks by violence and devour them.
3 📚They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
4 📚They push the needy off the road; the poor of the earth hide themselves from them.
5 📚✭Look, they go out to their work like the wild donkeys of the desert, seeking carefully for food. The wilderness provides food for them and for their children.
6 📚They gather their fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 📚They spend the night naked, without clothing; they have no covering in the cold.
8 📚They are wet with mountain showers, and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 📚The fatherless are snatched from the breast; the property of the poor is taken as a pledge.
10 📚Lacking clothing, they must go about naked; and the sheaves are taken away from the hungry.
11 📚They press out oil inside their walls, and tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 📚Men groan in the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not charge the wicked with wrongdoing.
13 📚✭“They are the ones who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways, or remain in its paths.
14 📚The murderer rises before the light and kills the poor and needy; at night he is like a thief.
15 📚The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’, and he disguises his face.
16 📚In the dark they dig into houses, which they had marked out for themselves in daylight. They do not know the light.
17 📚For the morning is to them like the shadow of death; if they are recognized the terrors of the shadow of death seize them.
18 📚✭“They are swift on the surface of the waters. Their portion on the earth is cursed; they do not face the way of the vineyards.
19 📚As drought and heat consume snow water, the grave✭ consumes the one who has sinned.
20 📚The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will no longer be remembered, and wickedness will be broken off like a tree.
21 📚He mistreats the barren, childless woman, and will not do good to the widow.
22 📚✭But God drags away the mighty by his power. When he arises, no one can be sure of life.
23 📚If they are given security, they rely on it; yet his eyes are on their ways.
24 📚They are exalted for a little while, then are gone; they are brought low and taken out of the way like all others, cut off like heads of grain.
25 📚✭“Now if this is not so, who will make me out to be a liar, and show that my speech is worthless?”