^{5 Ref} Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

^{6 Ref} For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

^{7 Ref} You haven't given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

^{8 Ref} But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

^{9 Ref} You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

^{10 Ref} Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

^{11 Ref} Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.

^{12 Ref} "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

^{13 Ref} You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

^{14 Ref} Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

^{15 Ref} Will you keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden,

^{16 Ref} Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,