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