Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --

They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.

The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief --

They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; like new flasks, it is ready to burst.

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

Lo, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:

Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.

When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.

Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

See now the behemoth, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox.

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?

None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me?

I will not be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure.

The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a boiling pot and cauldron.

His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether millstone.

He esteemeth iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

Clubs are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the ends of the earth:

Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces.

But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous man; with favour wilt thou surround him as with a shield.

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart shall be joyful in thy salvation.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them:

They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me, and be gracious unto me.

Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as king for ever.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he layeth up the deeps in storehouses.

Let thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive them away;

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:

I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies.

Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified!

As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

{To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.