You sent widows away empty-handed,
and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

The earth is handed over to the wicked;
He blindfolds its judges.
If it isn’t He, then who is it?

Does a wise man answer with empty counsel
or fill himself with the hot east wind?

Is there no end to your empty words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?

He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.

All of you have seen this for yourselves,
why do you keep up this empty talk?

Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,
and the Almighty does not take note of it—