6  For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing

and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7  ^bYou have given no water to the weary to drink,

and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8  The man with power possessed the land,

and the favored man lived in it.

9  You have sent ^cwidows 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 ^da flood of water covers you.

26  with the purified you show yourself pure;

and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

17  A man who is kind benefits himself,

but a cruel man hurts himself.

13  ^qWhoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor

will himself call out and not be answered.