His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

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

When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

When people are brought low and you say ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm!”