ECB(i)
1 Why are not times from Shadday treasured? Why do they who know him not see his days?
2 They overtake the borders; they strip droves and feed;
3 they drive away the she burro of the orphan; they take the ox of the widow for a pledge;
4 they pervert the needy from the way; the humble of the earth hide.
5 Behold, as wild runners in the wilderness, they go to their deeds; rising early for a prey; to the plains for bread - for them and their lads;
6 they harvest their fodder in the field; they glean the vineyard of the wicked;
7 they stay the naked overnight without robe that they have no covering in the cold;
8 they are moist with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a refuge;
9 they strip the orphan from the breast and take a pledge of the humble;
10 they have him go naked without robe; they take away the omer from the famished;
11 they press oil between their walls and tread their troughs - and thirst.
12 Men of the city groan and the soul of the pierced cries out; yet Elohah sets not frivolity to them.
13 They are of those who rebel against the light; they neither recognize the ways nor settle in the paths.
14 The murderer rising with the light severs the humble and needy as a thief in the night:
15 the eye of the adulterer guards for the evening breeze, saying, No eye observes me! - and covertly sets his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses which they sealed for themselves in the day; they know not the light;
17 when they are together morning is as the shadow of death; if one recognizes them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift at the face of the waters; their allotment abases in the earth; he faces not the way of the vineyards.
19 Parch and heat strip the snow waters as Sheol to them who sin:
20 the womb forgets him; the maggot sucks him; - remembered no more: and wickedness breaks as a tree.
21 He neither tends the sterile who birth nor well-pleases the widow:
22 he draws the mighty with his force; he rises, and no one trusts his life:
23 he gives him confidence whereon to lean yet his eyes are on their ways.
24 They exalt for a little, then go and subdue - shut up as all the others - clipped as the tops of the ears.
25 And if not, who proves me a liar? Who sets my utterances as naught?