My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.

"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.

So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."

"If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.

He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land.

They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'

his food will turn rancid in his stomach it will become a cobra's poison inside him.

A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry.

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.

he'll reveal their actions to them, when their transgressions have become excessive.