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A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the eretz.

Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment?

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, That he enters with you into judgment?

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

But as for the mighty man, he had the eretz. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Who said to God, 'Depart from us;' And, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'

For then shall you delight yourself in Shaddai, And shall lift up your face to God.