“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?

    Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?

2 

There are those who move boundary stones;

    they pasture flocks they have stolen.

3 

They drive away the orphan’s donkey

    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

4 

They thrust the needy from the path

    and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

5 

Like wild donkeys in the desert,

    the poor go about their labor of foraging food;

    the wasteland provides food for their children.

6 

They gather fodder in the fields

    and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 

Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;

    they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

8 

They are drenched by mountain rains

    and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.