Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked –

For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –