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For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

(For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

"Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

It can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

Gold and glass can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole sky.

When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

"Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.