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He will not get away from darkness. The fire will dry up his branches, and the breath of God's mouth will drive him away.

Let him not lie to himself and trust in what is empty. For what is empty will be his reward.

It will be paid in full while he still lives, and his branch will not be green.

He will be like the vine that drops off its grapes before they are ready. And he will throw off his flower like the olive tree.

His anger has torn me and hated me. He has ground His teeth at me. The one against me looks hard at me.

His arrows are all around me. He cuts my kidneys open without pity. He pours the bitter insides on the ground.

If only a man could give reasons to God, as a man does for his neighbor!

If one speaks against friends to get money, the eyes of his children also will become weak.

But the one who is right with God will hold to his way. And he who has clean hands will become stronger and stronger.

"Yes, the light of the sinful is put out. His fire does not give light.

The light in his tent is made dark, and his lamp goes out above him.

His strong steps are made short, and his own plans make him fall.

For he is thrown down into a net by his own feet and walks on it.

His strength leaves him because trouble is waiting for him at every side.

His skin is eaten by disease and the beginning of death eats his legs.

He is taken away from his tent where he was safe, and is brought to the king of fears.

Fire destroys everything in his tent and sulphur is spread where he lives.

His roots are dried below and his branch is cut off above.

No one on earth will remember him. His name will not be known in the land.

He has no children among his people to carry on his name where he lived.