Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

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

Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’

My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.