If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

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

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely righteous One,

Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”