全能者为何不把审判的定期贮藏起来？为何认识祂的人看不见祂的日子？
Why are times of judgment not stored up by the Almighty? / And why do those who know Him not see His days?

有人挪移地界，抢夺群畜而牧养。
Some remove landmarks; / They seize the flock and pasture them.

他们把孤儿的驴赶去，强取寡妇的牛作抵押。
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless / And take the widow's ox as a pledge.

他们使穷人离开所行的路；地上的困苦人尽都隐藏。
They turn the needy out of the way; / The poor of the land are made to hide together.

看哪，这些穷苦人出去工作，如同旷野的野驴，殷勤寻找猎物；野地供给他们食物，给他们的儿女糊口。
Indeed, like wild asses in the desert, / They go forth to their work, / Diligently seeking some prey; / The wilderness provides them food for their children.

他们在田间收割禾稼作草料，摘取恶人余剩的葡萄。
In the field they harvest their fodder, / And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

他们过夜赤身无衣，在寒冷中毫无遮盖；
They spend the night naked, without clothing; / And have no covering in the cold.

在山上被大雨淋湿；因没有避身之处就紧挨着磐石。
They are wet from the mountain showers, / And for lack of shelter they embrace the rock.

有人从母怀中抢夺孤儿，强取穷人身上之物作抵押。
Some pluck the fatherless from the breast, / And what the poor has on, as a pledge.

穷人赤身无衣，到处流浪；且在饥饿中扛抬禾捆。
They go about naked, without clothing; / And being hungry, they take up the sheaves.

在那些人的围墙内榨油，踹酒醡，自己却口渴。
Between their walls they press out oil; / They tread the winepresses yet suffer thirst.

有人从城内唉哼，受伤者的魂呼求；神却不理会恶人的愚妄。
From the city men groan, / And the soul of the wounded cries out; / Yet God does not regard the folly.

又有人背弃光，不晓得光的道路，不留在光的路上。
These are among those who rebel against the light; / They are not acquainted with its ways, / Nor do they abide in its paths.

杀人者黎明起来，杀害困苦人与穷乏人；夜间又像盗贼。
The murderer rises at dawn; / He kills the poor and the needy; / And at night he is like a thief.

奸夫的眼目守候到黄昏，说，必无眼能见我；他就把脸蒙蔽。
The eye of the adulterer also watches for the twilight, / Saying, Not an eye will see me; / And he disguises his face.

盗贼黑夜挖穿房屋，白日把自己关起来，并不认识光。
They dig through houses in the dark; / By day they shut themselves in: / They do not know the light.

早晨对他们如同死荫，因为他们晓得死荫的惊骇。
For morning is to all of them like the shadow of death, / Because they are acquainted with the terrors of the shadow of death.

他们在水面上快快漂去；他们所得的分在地上被咒诅；他们没有一人再走葡萄园的路。
Swift are they upon the face of the waters; / Their portion is cursed in the earth; / There is none who turns toward the vineyards.

干旱炎热消没雪水，阴间也如此消没犯罪之辈。
Drought and heat snatch the snow water, / As Sheol snatches those who have sinned.

怀他的母要忘记他；虫子要以他为甘甜；他不再被人记念；不义的人必如树折断。
The womb forgets him; / The worm finds him sweet; / He is remembered no more; / And wrongdoing is broken like a tree.

他抢夺不怀孕不生育的妇人，又不善待寡妇。
He despoils the barren woman who does not bear, / And does no good for the widow.

然而神用能力保全有权势的人；祂兴起，他们就难保性命。
But God preserves the mighty by His power; / He arises, and no one is certain of life.

神使他们安稳，他们就有所倚靠；神的眼目也察看他们的道路。
He grants a man to be secure, and he rests on it; / And His eyes are upon their ways.

他们被高举不过片时，就没有了；他们被降为卑，与众人一样被收聚，且如穗头被割下。
They are exalted a little while, then they are no more; / And they are brought low; like all others, they are gathered in / And are cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

若不是这样，谁能证实我是说谎的，使我的言语成空呢？
And if it is not so, then who will prove me a liar / And bring my words to nought?