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Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with Thee, and Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.

But his flesh grieveth for him, and his soul mourneth over him.

Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

He wandereth abroad for bread: 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of His mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.