1. Why doesn’t the Almighty establish times for punishment?Why can’t those who know him see his days?
2. People move boundary stones,herd flocks they’ve stolen,
3. drive off an orphan’s donkey,take a widow’s ox as collateral,
4. thrust the poor out of the way,make the land’s needy hide together.
5. They are like the wild donkeys in the desert;they go forth at dawn searching for prey;the wasteland is food for their young.
6. They gather their food in the field,glean in unproductive vineyards,
7. spend the night naked, unclothed,in the cold without a cover,
8. wet from mountain rains,with no refuge, huddled against a rock.
9. The orphan is stolen from the breast;the infant of the poor is taken as collateral.
10. The poor go around naked, without clothes,carry bundles of grain while hungry,
11. crush olives between millstones,tread winepresses, but remain thirsty.
12. From the city, the dying cry out;the throat of the mortally wounded screams, but God assigns no blame.
13. They rebel against light,don’t acknowledge its direction,don’t dwell in its paths.
14. The murderer rises at twilight,kills the poor and needy;at night, they are like a thief.