His strength is depleted;
disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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

His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

[There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.

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

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knows not 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.

He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.

I will see Him myself;
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs within me.

But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Yet his food in his body is soured, it is the gall of asps within him.

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

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

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

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

Nothing is left for him to consume;
therefore, his prosperity will not last.

In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.

It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yea, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

All darkness shall be laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown upon shall consume him; it shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto 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 Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

God lays up his iniquity for his children: he recompenses him, and he shall know it.

Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,

For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

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

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall follow after him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways blameless?

Is it for thy fear of him that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?

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 covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circle of heaven.

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

Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you.

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

You shall make your prayer unto him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.

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.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the righteous might reason with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see 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 sheaves 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.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

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

Though it be given him to be in safety, he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Dominion and fear are with him, he makes 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 helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Sheol is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

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 only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

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

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Those that remain of him shall be buried in 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 delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish 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 needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.

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 in [the] balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.

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 he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

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