Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 "Why aren't times laid up by Shaddai? Why don't those who know him see his days?
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Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the eretz all hide themselves.
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They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
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Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.
6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
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In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.
7 They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
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The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
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From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock.
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,
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They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.
12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.
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Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
13 "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
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They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.
14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
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And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
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He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the eretz: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
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Light he [is] on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So does She'ol those who have sinned.
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Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol [those who] have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
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Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten [on] him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
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Treating evil the barren [who] beareth not, And [to] the widow he doth no good,
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life.
23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
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He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes [are] on their ways.
24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
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High they were [for] a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all [others] they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.
25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?"
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And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?
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