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.

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

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

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

Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it

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

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a 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.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death-shade: -

Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face.

The upright shall be astonished upon this, and the innocent Shall arouse himself against the profane.

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

A snare shall lay hold upon the heel, the noose shall hold fast upon him.

His gin being hid in the earth, and his snare upon the beaten path.

Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

But if ye will enhance yourselves against me, and accuse me to be a wicked person because of the shame that is come upon me;

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

When I call upon my servant, he giveth me no answer: no though I pray him with my mouth.

Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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

Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, shall have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

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 is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

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

They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.

Who shall announce his way upon his face? and who shall requite to him that he did?

Place thou gold upon the dust, and the precious ore of the torrents of Ophir.

For then upon the Almighty shalt thou delight thyself, and thou shalt lift up thy face to God.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

My foot laid hold upon his going, I watched his way and not softly.

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
And he covers his face.

For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

“He preys on the barren (childless) woman
And does no good for the widow.

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

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

[He] ties up [the] water in its clouds, and [the] cloud is not torn open beneath it.

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

The sons of pride trod it not, and the lion passed not by upon it.

He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Among the rocks, hath he cut open streams, and, every precious thing, hath his eye seen:

For he holdeth the ends of the world and looketh upon all that is under the heaven.

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

When I went out to the gate unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat,

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.

But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused - to set with the dogs of my flock.

Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;

Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

If I went with vanity, and my foot will haste upon deceit;

If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

For it is a fire; it will devour even to destruction, and will root out upon all mine increase.

In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

For I was filled with words, the spirit of my belly pressed upon me.

"Look, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

“Behold, I have opened my mouth [to begin my speech];
My tongue in my mouth is going to speak.