I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;

There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

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

he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

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

They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.