KJV ¹ Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

VULC ¹ [Ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora :
qui autem noverunt eum,
ignorant dies illius.

KJV ² Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

VULC ² Alii terminos transtulerunt ;
diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.

KJV ³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

VULC ³ Asinum pupillorum abegerunt,
et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduæ.

KJV ⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

VULC ⁴ Subverterunt pauperum viam,
et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ.

KJV ⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

VULC ⁵ Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum :
vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.

KJV ⁶ They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

VULC ⁶ Agrum non suum demetunt,
et vineam ejus, quem vi oppresserint, vindemiant.

KJV ⁷ They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

VULC ⁷ Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes,
quibus non est operimentum in frigore :

KJV ⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

VULC ⁸ quos imbres montium rigant,
et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.

KJV ⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

VULC ⁹ Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos,
et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.

KJV ¹⁰ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

VULC ¹⁰ Nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu,
et esurientibus tulerunt spicas.

KJV ¹¹ Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

VULC ¹¹ Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt,
qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.

KJV ¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

VULC ¹² De civitatibus fecerunt viros gemere,
et anima vulneratorum clamavit :
et Deus inultum abire non patitur.

KJV ¹³ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

VULC ¹³ Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini :
nescierunt vias ejus,
nec reversi sunt per semitas ejus.

KJV ¹⁴ The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

VULC ¹⁴ Mane primo consurgit homicida ;
interficit egenum et pauperem :
per noctem vero erit quasi fur.

KJV ¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

VULC ¹⁵ Oculus adulteri observat caliginem,
dicens : Non me videbit oculus :
et operiet vultum suum.

KJV ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

VULC ¹⁶ Perfodit in tenebris domos,
sicut in die condixerant sibi,
et ignoraverunt lucem.

KJV ¹⁷ For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

VULC ¹⁷ Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis :
et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.

KJV ¹⁸ He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

VULC ¹⁸ Levis est super faciem aquæ :
maledicta sit pars ejus in terra,
nec ambulet per viam vinearum.

KJV ¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

VULC ¹⁹ Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium,
et usque ad inferos peccatum illius.

KJV ²⁰ The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

VULC ²⁰ Obliviscatur ejus misericordia ; dulcedo illius vermes :
non sit in recordatione,
sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum.

KJV ²¹ He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

VULC ²¹ Pavit enim sterilem quæ non parit,
et viduæ bene non fecit.

KJV ²² He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

VULC ²² Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua,
et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.

KJV ²³ Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

VULC ²³ Dedit ei Deus locum pœnitentiæ,
et ille abutitur eo in superbiam :
oculi autem ejus sunt in viis illius.

KJV ²⁴ They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

VULC ²⁴ Elevati sunt ad modicum, et non subsistent :
et humiliabuntur sicut omnia, et auferentur,
et sicut summitates spicarum conterentur.

KJV ²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

VULC ²⁵ Quod si non est ita, quis me potest arguere esse mentitum,
et ponere ante Deum verba mea ?]