²² Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

²⁶ Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

⁵ But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

²⁵ Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

³¹ If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

²³ And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

³ Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.