Why, seeing times
are not hidden
from the Almighty,
do they that know
him not see
his days?
Some remove
the landmarks;
they violently take away
flocks,
and feed
thereof.
They drive away
the ass
of the fatherless,
they take
the widow's
ox
for a pledge.
They turn
the needy
out of the way:
the poor
of the earth
hide
themselves together.
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.
They reap
every one his corn
in the field:
and they gather
the vintage
of the wicked.
They cause the naked
to lodge
without clothing,
that they have no covering
in the cold.
They are wet
with the showers
of the mountains,
and embrace
the rock
for want of a shelter.
They pluck
the fatherless
from the breast,
and take a pledge
of the poor.
They cause him to go
naked
without clothing,
and they take away
the sheaf
from the hungry;
Which make oil
within
their walls,
and tread
their winepresses,
and suffer thirst.
Men
groan
from out of the city,
and the soul
of the wounded
crieth out:
yet God
layeth
not folly
to them.
They are of those that rebel
against the light;
they know
not the ways
thereof, nor abide
in the paths
thereof.
The murderer
rising
with the light
killeth
the poor
and needy,
and in the night
is as a thief.
The eye
also of the adulterer
waiteth
for the twilight,
saying,
No eye
shall see
me: and disguiseth
his face.
In the dark
they dig through
houses,
which they had marked
for themselves in the daytime:
they know
not the light.
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.
He is swift
as the waters;
their portion
is cursed
in the earth:
he beholdeth
not the way
of the vineyards.
Drought
and heat
consume
the snow
waters:
so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
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.
fog
ὁμίχλη
homichlē
dew
δρόσου
drosou
incurable
ἀνιάτῳ
aniatō
He evil entreateth
the barren
that beareth
not: and doeth not good
to the widow.
He draweth
also the mighty
with his power:
he riseth up,
and no man is sure
of life.
Though it be given
him to be in safety,
whereon he resteth;
yet his eyes
are upon their ways.
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.
mallow
μολόχη
molochē
And if it be not so now,
who will make
me a liar,
and make
my speech
nothing worth?
