7. You have not given water to the weary to drink,and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8. But as for the mighty man, he possessed the earth,and the honorable man lived in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
10. Therefore snares are all around you,and sudden fear troubles you,
11. or darkness, so that you cannot see;and an abundance of waters covers you.
12. “Is not God in the height of heaven?And see the height of the stars, how high they are!
13. And you say, ‘What does God know?Can He judge through the dark cloud?
14. Thick clouds are His covering, so He cannot see;and He walks above the circle of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the old way,that wicked men have trod?
16. They were cut down before their time;their foundations were swept away by a flood.
17. They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’and, ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
18. Yet He filled their houses with good things;but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.