Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.

“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

That day – let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!”