How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?

I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.

Then call, and I will answer; or I will speak, and answer thou me.

Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.

His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.

He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God?

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment: