<p class="poetry">whose<n id="1" /> trust<n id="2" /> is in something futile,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">whose security is a spider&#8217;s web.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">he who<n id="1" /> crushes<n id="2" /> me with a tempest,p> <p class="poetry">and multiplies my wounds for no reason.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">what wise men declare,p> <p class="poetry">hiding nothing,p> <p class="poetry">from the tradition of<n id="1" /> their ancestors,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You, whose garments are hotp> <p class="poetry">when the earth is still because of the south wind,p>

<p class="poetry">to whom I appointed the steppe for its home,p> <p class="poetry">the salt wastes as its dwelling place?p>

<p class="poetry">Why is light given<n id="1" /> to a man<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whose way is hidden,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and whom God has hedged in?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the very thing I dreaded<n id="1" /> has happened<n id="2" /> to me,p> <p class="poetry">and what I feared has come upon me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even as I have seen,<n id="1" /> those who plow<n id="2" /> iniquity<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and those who sow trouble reap the same.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He who removes mountains suddenly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who overturns them in his anger;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Although<n id="1" /> I am innocent,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I could not answer him;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I could only plead<n id="4" /> with my judge<n id="5" /> for mercy.p>

<p class="poetry">I should have been as though I had never existed;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I should have been carriedp> <p class="poetry">right from the womb to the grave!p>

<p class="poetry">Will you keep to the old path<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that evil men have walked &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">men<n id="1" /> who were carried off<n id="2" /> before their time,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">when the flood<n id="4" /> was poured out<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">on their foundations?<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">just as I was in my most productive time,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship<n id="2" /> was experienced in my tent,p>

<p class="poetry">Remember to extol<n id="1" /> his work,p> <p class="poetry">which people have praised in song.p>

<p class="poetry">which the clouds pour downp> <p class="poetry">and shower on humankind abundantly.p>

<p class="poetry">which I reserve for the time of trouble,p> <p class="poetry">for the day of war and battle?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">And its young ones devour the blood,p> <p class="poetry">and where the dead carcasses<n id="1" /> are,p> <p class="poetry">there it is.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">how much more to those who live in houses of clay,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose foundation is in the dust,p> <p class="poetry">who are crushed<n id="2" /> like<n id="3" /> a moth?p>

<p class="poetry">The hungry<n id="1" /> eat up his harvest,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and take it even from behind the thorns,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the thirsty<n id="4" /> swallow up<n id="5" /> their fortune.<n id="6" />p>