If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’

He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality!

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

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

He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

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

Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?