Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

with kings and counselors of [the] earth, who {rebuild} ruins for themselves,

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Is not disaster for [the] evil one and ruin for [the] workers of mischief?

As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

he will dwell in ruined cities,
in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

My days have slipped by;
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
He uproots my hope like a tree.

Oh that my grief were but weighed, and my ruin laid in the balances together!

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin.

For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root out all my gain.

Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?

His eyes shall see his ruin, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

The place of ruin and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.

For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease, - ready, for such as are of faltering foot!

They brake up my path, - My engulfing ruin, they helped forward, unaided;

“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.