¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

²⁰ If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

¹¹ By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

¹² With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

⁴ Who for my life put their necks in danger; to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are in debt:

⁴⁴ Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.

⁷ When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

¹⁹ Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

¹⁸ Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

³ When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

²⁶ Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

¹⁷ For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

¹⁰ Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

²⁶ I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

² And he had seven sons and three daughters.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.