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Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

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.

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.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.