For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.

Which giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon all things;

Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

May a rush be green without moisture, or may the grass grow without water?

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

yet when the stock getteth the scent of water, it will bud, and bring forth bows, like as when it was first planted.

How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:

To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Shouldest thou then see no darkness? Should not the water flood run over thee?

which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water,

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

He bindeth the water in his clouds, and the cloud is not broken under them.

Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.

For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

He turneth the water to small drops, he driveth his clouds