Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.

“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

“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].

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction;
He instructs them by their torment.