¹² I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

¹¹ He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

¹² He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

⁴ My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

⁴ who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:

⁴⁴ And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.

⁷ When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

¹⁹ That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;

³ When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

²⁶ He runneth upon him with a `stiff' neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

¹⁷ For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

²⁶ I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

² And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.