^{2 Ref} There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

^{3 Ref} They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

^{4 Ref} They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

^{5 Ref} Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

^{6 Ref} They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

^{7 Ref} They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

^{8 Ref} They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

^{9 Ref} There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,

^{10 Ref} So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

^{11 Ref} They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

^{12 Ref} From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.

^{13 Ref} "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

^{14 Ref} The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

^{15 Ref} The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

^{16 Ref} In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.