Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.

He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

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

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

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.

Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

and throw your gold in the dust – your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.