If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?"

They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

"Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

"There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he veils his face.

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poorgo out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

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

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.'

They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;

"They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

"You say, 'Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.