<p class="poetry">While they are still beginning to flower<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and not ripe for cutting,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they can wither away<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">faster<n id="4" /> than any grass!<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">If he is uprooted<n id="1" /> from his place,p> <p class="poetry">then that place<n id="2" /> will disown him, saying,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I have never seen you!&#8217;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">he who commands the sun and<n id="1" /> it does not shine<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and seals up<n id="3" /> the stars;p>

<p class="poetry">God does not restrain his anger;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">under him the helpers of Rahab<n id="2" /> lie crushed.<n id="3" />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">If I summoned him, and he answered me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I would not believe<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that he would be listening to my voice &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">He does not allow<n id="1" /> me to recover<n id="2" /> my breath,p> <p class="poetry">for he fills<n id="3" /> me with bitterness.p>

<p class="poetry">I am blameless.<n id="1" /> I do not know myself.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I despise my life.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;My days<n id="1" /> are swifter than a runner,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they speed by without seeing happiness.p>

<p class="poetry">I dread<n id="1" /> all my sufferings,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="3" /> I know that you do not hold me blameless.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he<n id="1" /> is not a human being like I am,p> <p class="poetry">that<n id="2" /> I might answer him,p> <p class="poetry">that we might come<n id="3" /> together in judgment.p>

<p class="poetry">although you know<n id="1" /> that I am not guilty,p> <p class="poetry">and that there is no one who can deliver<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">out of your hand?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Why then did you bring me out from the womb?p> <p class="poetry">I should have died<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and no eye would have seen me!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">before I depart, never to return,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to the land of darknessp> <p class="poetry">and the deepest shadow,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Should not this<n id="1" /> abundance of words be answered,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or should this<n id="3" /> talkative man<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">be vindicated?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does not the ear test words,p> <p class="poetry">as<n id="1" /> the tongue<n id="2" /> tastes food?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">What you know,<n id="1" /> I<n id="2" /> know also;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior<n id="3" /> to you!p>

<p class="poetry">Would not his splendor<n id="1" /> terrify<n id="2" /> youp> <p class="poetry">and the fear he inspires<n id="3" /> fall on you?p>