<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">For, when I think<n id="1" /> about this, I am terrified<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my body feels a shudder.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">a place whose stones are sapphires<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and which contains dust of gold;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then he gives a revelation<n id="1" /> to people,p> <p class="poetry">and terrifies them with warnings,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">A tempest blows out from its chamber,p> <p class="poetry">icy cold from the driving winds.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">From there it spots<n id="1" /> its prey,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">its eyes gaze intently from a distance.p>

<p class="poetry">If my heart has been enticed by a woman,p> <p class="poetry">and I have lain in wait at my neighbor&#8217;s door,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I chose<n id="1" /> the way for them<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and sat as their chief;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I lived like a king among his troops;p> <p class="poetry">I was like one who comforts mourners.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But<n id="1" /> Satan answered the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Skin for<n id="2" /> skin!<n id="3" /> Indeed, a man will give up<n id="4" /> all that he has to save his life!<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">My brothers<n id="1" /> have been as treacherous<n id="2" /> as a seasonal stream,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that flow away.<n id="5" />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">Before daybreak<n id="1" /> the murderer rises up;p> <p class="poetry">he kills the poor and the needy;p> <p class="poetry">in the night he is<n id="2" /> like a thief.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">but from my youth I raised the orphan<n id="1" /> like a father,p> <p class="poetry">and from my mother&#8217;s womb<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I guided the widow!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Be patient<n id="1" /> with me a little longerp> <p class="poetry">and I will instruct you,p> <p class="poetry">for I still have words to speak on God&#8217;s behalf.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He catches<n id="1" /> the wise in their own craftiness,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the counsel of the cunning<n id="3" /> is brought to a quick end.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For now<n id="1" /> you have become like these streams that are no help;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you see a terror,<n id="3" /> and are afraid.p>

<p class="poetry">Do you intend to criticize mere words,p> <p class="poetry">and treat<n id="1" /> the words of a despairing man as wind?p>

<p class="poetry">For calamity,<n id="1" /> there is derisionp> <p class="poetry">(according to the ideas of the fortunate<n id="2" />) &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">a fate<n id="3" /> for those whose feet slip!p>

<p class="poetry">so that my heart was secretly enticed,p> <p class="poetry">and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Or a person is chastened<n id="1" /> by pain on his bed,p> <p class="poetry">and with the continual strife of his bones,<n id="2" />p>