<p class="poetry">But their prosperity is not their own doing.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The counsel of the wicked is far from me!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">And another man<n id="1" /> dies in bitterness of soul,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">never having tasted<n id="3" /> anything good.p>

<p class="poetry">You gave the weary<n id="1" /> no water to drinkp> <p class="poetry">and from the hungry you withheld food.p>

<p class="poetry">why it is so dark you cannot see,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and why a flood<n id="2" /> of water covers you.p>

<p class="poetry">Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as he goes back and forthp> <p class="poetry">in the vault<n id="2" /> of heaven.&#8217;<n id="3" />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">&#8216;Surely our enemies<n id="1" /> are destroyed,p> <p class="poetry">and fire consumes their wealth.&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;If I go to the east, he is not there,p> <p class="poetry">and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.p>

<p class="poetry">My feet<n id="1" /> have followed<n id="2" /> his steps closely;p> <p class="poetry">I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I have not departed from the commands of his lips;p> <p class="poetry">I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">because of the thick darknessp> <p class="poetry">that covered my face.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">But God<n id="1" /> drags off the mighty by his power;p> <p class="poetry">when God<n id="2" /> rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me a liarp> <p class="poetry">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Can his armies be numbered?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">On whom does his light<n id="2" /> not rise?p>

<p class="poetry">How you have advised the one without wisdom,p> <p class="poetry">and abundantly<n id="1" /> revealed your insight!p>

<p class="poetry">He locks the waters in his clouds,p> <p class="poetry">and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.p>

<p class="poetry">He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">It hurls itself against him without pity<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as he flees headlong from its power.p>

<p class="poetry">It cannot be measured out for purchase<n id="1" /> with the gold of Ophir,p> <p class="poetry">with precious onyx<n id="2" /> or sapphires.p>

<p class="poetry">Neither gold nor crystal<n id="1" /> can be compared with it,p> <p class="poetry">nor can a vase<n id="2" /> of gold match its worth.p>