8. The man with power possessed the land,and the favored man lived in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty,and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
10. Therefore snares are all around you,and sudden terror overwhelms you,
11. or darkness, so that you cannot see,and a flood of water covers you.
12. “Is not God high in the heavens?See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13. But you say, ‘What does God know?Can he judge through the deep darkness?
14. Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the old waythat wicked men have trod?
16. They were snatched away before their time;their foundation was washed away.
17. They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’