Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,
never to return.

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”

When He withholds the waters, everything dries up,
and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

as water wears away stones
and torrents wash away the soil from the land,
so You destroy a man’s hope.

the land was given to them alone
when no foreigner passed among them.

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure.
His possessions will not increase in the land.

while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.

They push the needy off the road;
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

They float on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.

No man can know its value,
since it cannot be found in the land of the living.

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.

Foolish men, without even a name.
They were forced to leave the land.

If my land cries out against me
and its furrows join in weeping,

He causes this to happen for punishment,
for His land, or for His faithful love.

You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.