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For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

He will certainly accomplish what he has decreed for me,and he has many more things like these in mind.

Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment?

The wicked displace boundary markers.They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;the desert provides nourishment for their children.

From the city, men groan;the mortally wounded cry for help,yet God pays no attention to this crime.

The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,thinking, “No eye will see me,”and he covers his face.

For the morning is like darkness to them.Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

They are exalted for a moment, then gone;they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.They wither like heads of grain.

For what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off,when God takes away his life?

All of you have seen this for yourselves,why do you keep up this empty talk?

Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword;his descendants will never have enough food.

Those who survive him will be buried by the plague,yet their widows will not weep for them.

Surely there is a mine for silver

Gold cannot be exchanged for it,and silver cannot be weighed out for its price.

Gold and glass do not compare with it,and articles of fine gold cannot be exchanged for it.

For he looks to the ends of the earthand sees everything under the heavens.

when he established a limit for the rainand a path for the lightning,

when my feet were bathed in curdsand the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

For I rescued the poor who cried out for help,and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.