I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.

“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.

And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.

All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

“The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion,
And the teeth of the young lions are broken.

‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces;
Unobserved, they perish forever.

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

Hast not, thou thyself, made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? The work of his hands, thou hast blessed, and, his substance, hath broken forth in the land.

Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

He counteth iron as broken straw, and bronze as rotten wood: