My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].

While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.

Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

The weak shall break his sons, and his hands shall turn back his wealth.

You sent away widows empty-handed, and broke the outstretched arms of orphans.

And place your gold in the dust,
And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks [considering it of little value],

In the dark they break into houses;
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.

It will toss him around without pity. He'll try to break free from its grip,

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,
[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;
They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

“They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans],
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me .

Behold, my belly as wine it will not open; it will break open as new wine skins.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

Lo, the river overfloweth he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.