But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?