<p class="poetry">I<n id="1" /> will reply to you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and to your friends with you.p>

<p class="poetry">How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">How vast is their sum total!<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Your shepherds<n id="1" /> are sleeping, O king of Assyria!p> <p class="poetry">Your officers<n id="2" /> are slumbering!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Your people are scattered like sheep<n id="4" /> on the mountainsp> <p class="poetry">and there is no one to regather them!p>

<p class="bodytext">Abram said to Lot, &#8220;Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because you have fallen into your neighbor&#8217;s power:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">go, humble yourself,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and appeal firmly<n id="4" /> to your neighbor.p>

<p class="poetry">My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Your allies will go into captivity.p> <p class="poetry">Then you will certainly<n id="2" /> be disgraced and put to shamep> <p class="poetry">because of all the wickedness you have done.p>

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest;<n id="1" /> you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After the <sc>Lordsc> had spoken these things to Job, he<n id="1" /> said to Eliphaz the Temanite, &#8220;My anger is stirred up<n id="2" /> against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right,<n id="3" /> as my servant Job has.