Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.

and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.