1 لماذا اذ لم تختبئ الازمنة من القدير لا يرى عارفوه يومه.2 ينقلون التخوم. يغتصبون قطيعا ويرعونه.3 يستاقون حمار اليتامى ويرتهنون ثور الارملة.4 يصدّون الفقراء عن الطريق. مساكين الارض يختبئون جميعا.5 ها هم كالفراء في القفر يخرجون الى عملهم يبكرون للطعام. البادية لهم خبز لاولادهم.6 في الحقل يحصدون علفهم ويعللون كرم الشرير.7 يبيتون عراة بلا لبس وليس لهم كسوة في البرد.8 يبتلّون من مطر الجبال ولعدم الملجإ يعتنقون الصخر9 يخطفون اليتيم عن الثدي ومن المساكين يرتهنون.10 عراة يذهبون بلا لبس وجائعين يحملون حزما.11 يعصرون الزيت داخل اسوارهم. يدوسون المعاصر ويعطشون.12 من الوجع اناس يئنون ونفس الجرحى تستغيث والله لا ينتبه الى الظلم13 اولئك يكونون بين المتمردين على النور لا يعرفون طرقه ولا يلبثون في سبله.14 مع النور يقوم القاتل يقتل المسكين والفقير وفي الليل يكون كاللص.15 وعين الزاني تلاحظ العشاء. يقول لا تراقبني عين. فيجعل سترا على وجهه.16 ينقبون البيوت في الظلام. في النهار يغلقون على انفسهم. لا يعرفون النور.17 لانه سواء عليهم الصباح وظل الموت. لانهم يعلمون اهوال ظل الموت.18 خفيف هو على وجه المياه. ملعون نصيبهم في الارض. لا يتوجه الى طريق الكروم.19 القحط والقيظ يذهبان بمياه الثلج. كذا الهاوية بالذين اخطأوا.20 تنساه الرحم يستحليه الدود. لا يذكر بعد وينكسر الاثيم كشجرة.21 يسيء الى العاقر التي لم تلد ولا يحسن الى الارملة.22 يمسك الاعزاء بقوته. يقوم فلا يأمن احد بحياته.23 يعطيه طمأنينة فيتوكل ولكن عيناه على طرقهم.24 يترفعون قليلا ثم لا يكونون ويحطون. كالكل يجمعون وكرأس السنبلة يقطعون.25 وان لم يكن كذا فمن يكذبني ويجعل كلامي لا شيئا

1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow' ox for a pledge.4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.14 The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.17 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.18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned.20 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.21 He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.22 He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.23 Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.24 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.25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?