For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before} [the] hills?

"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.

"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust.

He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him to the king of terrors.

When he is brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb.

When they are humiliated, {you say}, '[It is] pride,' for he saves {the humble}.

They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.

Look, even [the] moon {is not bright}, and [the] stars are not pure in his sight.

"[It is] a path a bird of prey does not know and [the] black kite's eye has not seen.

{Proud wild animals} have not trodden it; [the] lion in its prime has not prowled over it.

{A senseless crowd}, yes, {a disreputable brood}, they were cast out from the land.

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

On [the] right hand the brood rises up; {they put me to flight}, and they build up their {siege ramps} against me.

to turn human beings aside [from their] deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

{so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.

There they cry out, but he does not answer {because of the pride of evildoers}.

And what's more, he allured you {out of distress} [into] a broad place, [where] in place of it [was] no constraint; and [what] was set on your table is full of fatness.

By God's breath, ice is given, and [the] broad waters [are] frozen.

So then, they do not look at the light [when it is] bright in the skies, when [the] wind has passed and has cleansed them.

and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?

Adorn yourself [with] pride and dignity, and clothe yourself [with] splendor.

Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all [the] proud, and humble them.

Look at all [the] proud, humble them, and tread down [the] wicked {where they stand}.

It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.