1“◄Why does Almighty God not set a time when he will judge evil people?/I do not understand why Almighty God does not set a time when he will judge evil people.► [RHQ]
2Some evil people remove the markers of boundaries of other people’s land, in order to steal their land;
3Some ◄take away/steal► the donkeys that belong to orphans,
4Some shove poor people off the road (OR, prevent poor people from ◄obtaining their rights/being treated justly►),
5The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert
6The poor people harvest left-over grain in other people’s fields,
7During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies,
8When it rains on the mountains, the poor people become very wet,
9Some evil men snatch infants away from their widowed mothers [SYN],
10But the poor people walk around with no clothes on;
11Poor people press olives to make olive oil;
12In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out to God for help,
13Some wicked people avoid the light because they do evil things in the dark;
14Murderers steal things during the night,
15Those who want to commit adultery wait for twilight/evening;
16It is during the night that robbers break into houses to steal things,
17All of those people want to do their evil things at night, not in the morning when it is light,
18“But it is wicked people who are swept/carried away by floods,
19Just like the snow melts away when it is hot and there is no rain,
20Not even their mothers remember them now;
21They mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children and women who no longer have children to take care of them,
22But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty/influential people.
23God allows them to think that they are secure and safe,
24They prosper for a little while,
25If this is not true, is there [RHQ] anyone who will show that I am a liar