But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

and become darkened because of ice,
and the snow melts into them.

So this is what you have now become to me.
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.

If I have sinned, what have I done to You,
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?

As water disappears from the sea
and a river becomes parched and dry,

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it;
if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

he will dwell in ruined cities,
in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

You have shriveled me up—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

Now I am mocked by their songs;
I have become an object of scorn to them.

He throws me into the mud,
and I have become like dust and ashes.

I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress,
or become excited when trouble came his way?

For he has said, “A man gains nothing
when he becomes God’s friend.”

when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

No arrow can make him flee;
slingstones become like stubble to him.