8. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.The honourable man, he lived in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty,and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10. Therefore snares are around you.Sudden fear troubles you,
11. or darkness, so that you can not see,and floods of waters cover you.
12. “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?See the height of the stars, how high they are!
13. You say, ‘What does God know?Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14. Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.He walks on the vault of the sky.’
15. Will you keep the old way,which wicked men have trodden,
16. who were snatched away before their time,whose foundation was poured out as a stream,