For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.

Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.