| Berean Study Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? | 1Why doesn't the Almighty reserve time for judgment? and why don't those who know him perceive his days? |
| 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. | 2They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them. |
| 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. | 3They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan; |
| 4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. | 4They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding. |
| 5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. | 5"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones. |
| 6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked. | 6They reap fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked. |
| 7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. | 7They spend the night naked, without clothing, with no covering against the cold. |
| 8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. | 8They are wet from mountain rains; without shelter, they cling to a rock. |
| 9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. | 9"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan. |
| 10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. | 10They wander around naked, without clothes; hungry, though they carry sheaves of grain. |
| 11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. | 11They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress. |
| 12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing. | 12From the city, dying men groan aloud, and the wounded cries out for help, but God charges no one with wrong. |
| 13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. | 13"Then there are those who rebel against the light; they are not acquainted with its ways; and they don't stay on its course. |
| 14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. | 14The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief. |
| 15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. | 15The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, 'No eye is watching me' while he veils his face. |
| 16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light. | 16They break into houses in the dark; during the day they remained sealed in. They don't know daylight. |
| 17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness! | 17As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend." |
| 18They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards. | 18"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards. |
| 19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. | 19As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners. |
| 20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree. | 20The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood. |
| 21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow. | 21"They prey on the barren woman, and do no favors for widows. |
| 22Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life. | 22God prolongs the life of the strong by his power, but they get up in the morning without purpose in life. |
| 23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways. | 23He gives them security and financial support, but he watches everything they do. |
| 24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain. | 24They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn. |
| 25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?” | 25If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?" |
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