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,
20. “Surely our opponents are destroyed,and fire has consumed what they left behind.”
21. Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.
22. Receive instruction from His mouth, and place His sayings in your heart.
23. If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.If you banish injustice from your tent
24. and consign your gold to the dust,the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,