How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

{so} a man lies down, and he does not arise. {Until the heavens are no more}, they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him."

"Should [the] wise answer [with] windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach [with the] east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

Which the wise ones will announce, and he hid it not from their fathers.

'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

Dreadful sounds fill his ears;
when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

“Distress and anxiety terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for battle.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

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

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit."

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of [the] wicked.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears: -

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

“The vigorous stride will be shortened,
And his own counsel and the scheme [in which he trusted] will bring his downfall.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking."

He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

“The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened,
And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].

He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members.

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Nothing he owned remains in his tent.
Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

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

Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --

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

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

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

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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.

He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

The substance that he hath in his house, shall be taken away and perish, in the day of the LORD's wrath.

This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

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

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.