Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear.

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.