And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and return not again.