1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

<>v. 2

3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

<>v. 3, <>They drive away the ass

4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

<>children

6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

<>the vintage of the wicked

7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

<>v. 7, <>They cause the naked to lodge without clothing

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

<>v. 8

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

<>vv. 9-10

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

<>vv. 9-10, <>they take away the sheaf from the hungry

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

<>tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst, <>suffer thirst

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

<>Men groan, <>the city

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

<>those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, <>those that rebel against the light, <>rebel

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

<>v. 14

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

<>The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, <>saying, No eye shall see me

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

<>the shadow of death … the shadow of death, <>death … death, <>they are in … the terrors of the shadow of death

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

<>the grave

20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

<>the worm shall feed sweetly on him, <>wickedness shall be broken

21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

<>doeth not good to the widow

22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

<>the mighty, <>no man is sure of life

23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

<>They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low, <>taken out of the way as all other

25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

<>who will make me a liar