Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, A man-child is conceived.

For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come to me.

fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

Call now, is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the saints will you turn?

Can that which has no taste be eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the white of an egg?

torrents black from ice, in which the snow hides itself.

Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?

that which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers;

And he lives in cut off cities, in houses where none are living, which are ready to become heaps.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me.

Do you keep to the old way which wicked men have walked?

I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me.

In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

I will teach you by the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not hide.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of cruel men which they shall receive from the Almighty.

There is a path which no bird knows, nor has the vulture's eye caught sight of it;

I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins.

Remember that you magnify His work of which men have sung;

which the clouds pour down and drop on man plentifully.

which I have kept for the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Now behold behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox;