"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'

"Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, like new wineskins ready to burst!

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

"Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.