For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?