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

They lodge the naked without clothing, and give no covering in the cold.

They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.

Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, why do those who know Him not see His days?

Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned.

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

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

And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on his face.

Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.

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

They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.

They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked.

They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.

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

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

He ill-treats the women who bear no children; and does no good to the widow.

For the morning is to them like the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

He also draws the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no one is sure of life.

He is swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

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

He gives safety to him, and he rests on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.