You have done these things, and I have kept silence; you thought that being I would be like you; but I will rebuke you and set in order before your eyes.
for that is his only covering, that is his garment for his skin. In what shall he lie down? And it shall be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of those who were oppressed, and there is not for them one who comforts! And at the hand of those oppressing them was power; but there was not one who comforts them.
And now what is to Me here, a statement of Jehovah? For My people is taken for nothing; those ruling howl, a statement of Jehovah. And My name is continually despised, every day.
Righteous are You, O Jehovah, when I might contend with You, yet let me speak with You of Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked ones prosper? Why are all at ease, those who act deceitfully, with deceit.
You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what way have we wearied Him? When you say, Every doer of evil is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and in them He delights; or, Where is the God of justice?
And think of the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom having been given to him;