along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins,

Will you show partiality to him? Will you plead God's case?

"Listen, earth! Don't cover my blood, for my outcry has no place to rest.

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

"He has built his house like a moth's cocoon, like a temporary sunshade that a watchman makes.

"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

to show favor to him and to plead, "Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit I know where his ransom is!'

Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?

His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."