<p class="poetry">Can a man hold<n id="1" /> fire<n id="2" /> against his chest<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">without<n id="4" /> burning his clothes?p>

<p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> God will make you a permanent heap of ruins.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will scoop you up<n id="3" /> and remove you from your home;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">for you will heap coals of fire on his head,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> will reward you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,p> <p class="poetry">so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to scoop a hot coal from a fire<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">or to skim off water from a cistern.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>