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For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when a portion of his years shall be reserved for his posterity?

For you say. Where is the house of the righteous? And where is the place in which the wicked has pitched his tent?

For the evil man is reserved for the day of destruction, he shall be remembered in the day of wrath.

Who can show him the way? And who shall repay him for what he has done?

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, he is reserved for misfortune.

For you have taken a pledge from your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

There is a man who sows a field for himself, and the mighty man seizes it from him by force.

Who said to God, Depart from us; what can God do for us?

For then you shall lift up your face to God.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light shall shine upon your ways.

For it is said, He who humbles himself shall be exalted; and he who is meek shall be saved.

But in return for one of these, what has he granted me? What his soul desires, even that he does.

For God has troubled my heart, and my mind is confused:

They seize the ass of the fatherless, they take the widows ox for a pledge.

Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth early seeking food for their young ones.

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

The eyes also of the adulterer wait for the darkness, saying, No eye shall see me; and he disguises his face in the dark.

Therefore they sought for themselves the shadow of death, and have found it: yea, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; for they have sinned in Sheol.

Such men are exalted for a little while, but soon are no more; yea, all the provokers shall be brought low and destroyed; they wither and are shaken out like the heads of grain.