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1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?
And why do not they that know him see his days?
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2 There are that remove the landmarks;
They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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4 They turn the needy out of the way:
The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert
They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food;
The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.
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6 They cut their provender in the field;
And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
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7 They lie all night naked without clothing,
And have no covering in the cold.
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8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge of the poor;
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10 So that they go about naked without clothing,
And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
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11 They make oil within the walls of these men;
They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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12 From out of the populous city men groan,
And the soul of the wounded crieth out:
Yet God regardeth not the folly.
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13 These are of them that rebel against the light;
They know not the ways thereof,
Nor abide in the paths thereof.
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14 The murderer riseth with the light;
He killeth the poor and needy;
And in the night he is as a thief.
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15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
Saying, No eye shall see me:
And he disguiseth his face.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses:
They shut themselves up in the daytime;
They know not the light.
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17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;
For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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18 Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters;
Their portion is cursed in the earth:
They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
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19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters:
So doth Sheol those that have sinned.
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So doth the grave – Sheol, oblivion, death, not torment. E360; R2600:1
Which have sinned – All mankind, but especially evil-doers, who hasten their own death. E360
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20 The womb shall forget him;
The worm shall feed sweetly on him;
He shall be no more remembered:
And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
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21 He devoureth the barren that beareth not,
And doeth not good to the widow.
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22 Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power:
He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.
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23 God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon;
And his eyes are upon their ways.
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24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone;
Yes, they are brought low, they shall be taken out of the way as all others,
And shall be cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
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25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar,
And make my speech nothing worth? |
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