But you even undermine the fear of God
and hinder meditation before Him.

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

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.

“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]
Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

For his own feet lead him into a net,
and he strays into its mesh.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

His strength is depleted;
disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

[There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

Nothing is left for him to consume;
therefore, his prosperity will not last.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

“As for me, is my complaint to man or about him?
And why should I not be impatient and my spirit troubled?

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Is it for thy fear of him that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein:

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

The righteous will see this and rejoice; the innocent will insult him, saying,

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

He will deliver even him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

“For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?