^{5 Ref} Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

^{6 Ref} For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

^{7 Ref} You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

^{8 Ref} For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

^{9 Ref} You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

^{10 Ref} For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

^{11 Ref} Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

^{12 Ref} Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

^{13 Ref} And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

^{14 Ref} Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

^{15 Ref} Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

^{16 Ref} Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters: