By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.

“Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.

All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the Lord will perish.

I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! They have been knocked down and are unable to get up!

May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!

Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.

Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.

When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

When the magicians attempted to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. (That is why its name was Marah.)

But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

He said to them, “Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong one came something sweet.” They could not solve the riddle for three days.