Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.

Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

He perishes forever like his refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

Yet his food in his stomach is changed
To the venom of cobras within him.

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.

“Because he knew no quiet within him,
He does not retain anything he desires.

“Nothing remains for him to devour,
Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

“As for me, is my complaint to man or about him?
And why should I not be impatient and my spirit troubled?

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.

“Let his own eyes see his decay,
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?

Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

"Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein:

Thick clouds are a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,

The righteous will see this and rejoice; the innocent will insult him, saying,

Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good.

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest.

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.

There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not.

When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;
He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth it.

For He doth complete my portion, And many such things are with Him.

Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

“For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.

Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes are on their ways.

The rule and fear are with Him, Making peace in His high places.

Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

for from my youth, I raised him as his father,
and since the day I was born I guided the widow—

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;