If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?