<p class="poetry">Moreover, this will become my deliverance,p> <p class="poetry">for no godless person would come before him.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Only in two things spare me,<n id="1" /> O God,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and then I will not hide from your face:p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But there is hope for<n id="1" /> a tree:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">If it is cut down, it will sprout again,p> <p class="poetry">and its new shoots will not fail.p>

<p class="poetry">so man lies down and does not rise;p> <p class="poetry">until the heavens are no more,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they<n id="2" /> will not awakep> <p class="poetry">nor arise from their sleep.p>

<p class="poetry">He does not expect<n id="1" /> to escape from darkness;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he is marked for the sword;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">he lived in ruined towns<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and in houses where<n id="2" /> no one lives,p> <p class="poetry">where they are ready to crumble into heaps.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will not grow rich,p> <p class="poetry">and his wealth will not endure,p> <p class="poetry">nor will his possessions<n id="1" /> spread over the land.p>

<p class="poetry">He will not escape the darkness;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a flame will wither his shootsp> <p class="poetry">and he will departp> <p class="poetry">by the breath of God&#8217;s mouth.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But<n id="1" /> if I speak, my pain is not relieved,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and if I refrain from speakingp> <p class="poetry">&#8211; how<n id="3" /> much of it goes away?p>

<p class="poetry">He has neither children nor descendants<n id="1" /> among his people,p> <p class="poetry">no survivor in those places he once stayed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Surely such is the residence<n id="1" /> of an evil man;p> <p class="poetry">and this is the place of one who has not known God.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Total darkness waits to receive his treasures;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a fire which has not been kindled<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will consume himp> <p class="poetry">and devour what is left in his tent.p>

<p class="poetry">Would he contend<n id="1" /> with me with great power?p> <p class="poetry">No, he would only pay attention to me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">From the city the dying<n id="1" /> groan,p> <p class="poetry">and the wounded<n id="2" /> cry out for help,p> <p class="poetry">but God charges no one with wrongdoing.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">There are those<n id="1" /> who rebel against the light;p> <p class="poetry">they do not know its waysp> <p class="poetry">and they do not stay on its paths.p>

<p class="poetry">And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight,p> <p class="poetry">thinking,<n id="1" /> &#8216;No eye can see me,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and covers his face with a mask.p>

<p class="poetry">In the dark the robber<n id="1" /> breaks into houses,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but by day they shut themselves in;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they do not know the light.<n id="4" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">&#8220;You say,<n id="2" /> &#8216;He is foam<n id="3" /> on the face of the waters;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">their portion of the land is cursedp> <p class="poetry">so that no one goes to their vineyard.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">The womb<n id="1" /> forgets him,p> <p class="poetry">the worm feasts on him,p> <p class="poetry">no longer will he be remembered.p> <p class="poetry">Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.p>

<p class="poetry">If even the moon is not bright,p> <p class="poetry">and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,<n id="1" />p>