Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?

"But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.

"For now you have become {such}; you see terrors, and you fear.

And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but {I will be no more}."

If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

that you seek out my iniquity, and you search for my sin

Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.

that you turn your spirit against God, and you let [such] words go out of your mouth?

"Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back {for the sake of} my inward excitement.

His children will seek favors from [the] poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

He will suck [the] poison of horned vipers; [the] viper's tongue will kill him.