While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, ‘I have never seen you!’

He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice –

He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?

Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?

What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you!

Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?