6. For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
7. You gave no water to the thirstyand withheld food from the famished,
8. while the land belonged to a powerful manand an influential man lived on it.
9. You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
10. Therefore snares surround you,and sudden dread terrifies you,
11. or darkness, so you cannot see,and a flood of water covers you.
12. Isn’t God as high as the heavens?And look at the highest stars — how lofty they are!
13. Yet you say: “What does God know?Can He judge through thick darkness?
14. Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see,as He walks on the circle of the sky.”
15. Will you continue on the ancient paththat wicked men have walked?
16. They were snatched away before their time,and their foundations were washed away by a river.
17. They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone! ”and “What can the Almighty do to us? ”
18. But it was He who filled their houses with good things.The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
19. The righteous see this and rejoice;the innocent mock them, saying,