He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

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

“Have I ever said, ‘Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor’?

Or ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

if iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

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

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.