the waters pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner.

My bones are pierced through in the night season, and my sinews take no rest.

He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.

By his spirit he has adorned the heavens; his hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.

"The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God's terrors have been arranged just for me!

And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced are -- there is he!

Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.

Can thou put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

They advance as through a gaping breach;
they keep rolling in through the ruins.

It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified.

"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, a bow of bronze shall pierce him.

From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce;

His anger tears at me, and He harasses me.
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.

His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.