4. Is it because of your fear of Him that He reproves you, or enters into right-ruling with you?
5. Is not your evil great? And is there no end to your crookednesses?
6. For you take pledges from your brother for naught, and strip the naked of their garments.
7. You do not give the weary water to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8. But the man of strength, he has the earth, and the highly respected man dwells in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless are crushed.
10. Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear alarms you,
11. or darkness, so that you do not see, and a flood of water covers you.
12. Is not Eloah in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13. And you have said, ‘What does Ěl know? Would He judge through the dark cloud?
14. ‘Clouds screen Him, so that He does not see, and He moves about the circuit of the heavens.’
15. Do you observe the old way which wicked men have trod,
16. who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?