| New Living Translation | Berean Study Bible |
| 1“Why doesn’t the Almighty bring the wicked to judgment? Why must the godly wait for him in vain? | 1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? |
| 2Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures. | 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. |
| 3They take the orphan’s donkey and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan. | 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. |
| 4The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety. | 4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. |
| 5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children. | 5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. |
| 6They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked. | 6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked. |
| 7All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering. | 7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. |
| 8They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home. | 8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. |
| 9“The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan. | 9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. |
| 10The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving. | 10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. |
| 11They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst. | 11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. |
| 12The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning. | 12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing. |
| 13“Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways or stay in its paths. | 13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. |
| 14The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief. | 14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. |
| 15The adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No one will see me then.’ He hides his face so no one will know him. | 15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. |
| 16Thieves break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light. | 16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light. |
| 17The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness. | 17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness! |
| 18“But they disappear like foam down a river. Everything they own is cursed, and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards. | 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. |
| 19The grave consumes sinners just as drought and heat consume snow. | 19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. |
| 20Their own mothers will forget them. Maggots will find them sweet to eat. No one will remember them. Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm. | 20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree. |
| 21They cheat the woman who has no son to help her. They refuse to help the needy widow. | 21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow. |
| 22“God, in his power, drags away the rich. They may rise high, but they have no assurance of life. | 22Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life. |
| 23They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them. | 23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways. |
| 24And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain. | 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. |
| 25Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?” | 25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?” |
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