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,

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;

“He has lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ruins.

Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

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

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

He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away - like a tree - my hope;

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.

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

“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].

They advance as through a gaping breach;
they keep rolling in through the ruins.

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

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.

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.