<p class="poetry">If I say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;I will<n id="2" /> forget my complaint,p> <p class="poetry">I will change my expression<n id="3" /> and be cheerful,&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He would certainly rebuke<n id="1" /> youp> <p class="poetry">if you secretly<n id="2" /> showed partiality!p>

<p class="poetry">But you even break off<n id="1" /> piety,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and hinder<n id="3" /> meditation<n id="4" /> before God.p>

<p class="poetry">Because he covered his face with fat,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and made<n id="2" /> his hips bulge with fat,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have seized me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and it<n id="2" /> has become a witness;p> <p class="poetry">my leanness<n id="3" /> has risen up against mep> <p class="poetry">and testifies against me.p>

<p class="poetry">He breaks through against me, time and time again;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he rushes<n id="2" /> against me like a warrior.p>

<p class="poetry">my face is reddened<n id="1" /> because of weeping,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">These men<n id="1" /> change<n id="2" /> night into day;p> <p class="poetry">they say,<n id="3" /> &#8216;The light is nearp> <p class="poetry">in the face of darkness.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">How often<n id="1" /> are they like straw before the wind,p> <p class="poetry">and like chaff swept away<n id="2" /> by a whirlwind?p>

<p class="poetry">Although you were a powerful man,<n id="1" /> owning land,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">an honored man<n id="3" /> living on it,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">That is why I am terrified in his presence;p> <p class="poetry">when I consider, I am afraid because of him.p>

<p class="poetry">If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They detest me and maintain their distance;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.p>

<p class="poetry">Because God has untied<n id="1" /> my tent cord and afflicted me,p> <p class="poetry">people throw off all restraint in my presence.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then<n id="1" /> they cry out &#8211; but he does not answer &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">because of the arrogance of the wicked.p>

<p class="poetry">Tell us what we should<n id="1" /> say to him.p> <p class="poetry">We cannot prepare a case<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the darkness.p>

<p class="poetry">It laughs at fear and is not dismayed;p> <p class="poetry">it does not shy away from the sword.p>

<p class="poetry">Who can open the doors of its mouth?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Its teeth all around are fearsome.p>

<p class="poetry">Strength lodges in its neck,p> <p class="poetry">and despair<n id="1" /> runs before it.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>