²⁰ And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

¹ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

² He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

³ Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

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

⁵ He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

⁶ He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

⁷ He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

⁹ He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

¹⁰ He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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.

¹³ He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

¹⁴ I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

¹⁷ And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

¹⁹ Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁰ My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

²² And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

¹¹ All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, `even the fruit' of righteousness.

¹³ I quieted `myself' until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

¹⁴ For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

⁶ Know now that God hath subverted me `in my cause', And hath compassed me with his net.

⁷ Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

³ and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them.

¹⁴ and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

¹ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.