8 while the land belonged to a powerful manand an influential man lived on it.
9 You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
10 Therefore snares surround you,and sudden dread terrifies you,
11 or darkness, so you cannot see,and a flood of water covers you.
12 Isn’t God as high as the heavens?And look at the highest stars — how lofty they are!
13 Yet you say: “What does God know?Can He judge through thick darkness?
14 Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see,as He walks on the circle of the sky.”