1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof. 3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge. 4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5Behold, [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. 6They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde. 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie. 11[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. 12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them]. 13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe. 15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face. 16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light. 17But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death. 18He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned. 20The 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. 21He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. 22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life. 23Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes. 24They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne. 25And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?