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Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.