“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],
They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,
And there is no one to rescue them.

“He gives rain upon the earth
And sends waters upon the fields,

‘You renew Your witnesses against me
And increase Your indignation and anger toward me;
Hardship after hardship is with me [attacking me time after time].

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

When He made a limit for the rain
And a way for the thunderbolt,

“They waited for me [and for my words] as for the rain,
And they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

“For it is a fire which consumes to Abaddon (destruction, ruin, final torment);
And [illicit passion] would burn and rage and uproot all my [life’s] increase [destroying everything].

So that godless men would not rule
Nor be snares for the people.

“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,

“Who has prepared a channel for the torrents of rain and for the flood,
Or a path for the thunderbolt,

To bring rain on the uninhabited land,
And on the desert where no man lives,

“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

When the dust hardens into a mass
And the clods stick together [because of the heat]?