| 1. | And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. |
| 2. | Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished. |
| 3. | With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste, |
| 4. | Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food. |
| 5. | From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief), |
| 6. | In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts. |
| 7. | Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together. |
| 8. | Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land. |
| 9. | And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword. |
| 10. | They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit. |
| 11. | Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away. |
| 12. | On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity. |
| 13. | They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.' |
| 14. | As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves. |
| 15. | He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away. |
| 16. | And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction. |
| 17. | At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. |
| 18. | By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me. |
| 19. | Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. |
| 20. | I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me. |
| 21. | Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me. |
| 22. | Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me. |
| 23. | For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living. |
| 24. | Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety. |
| 25. | Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy. |
| 26. | When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh. |
| 27. | My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. |
| 28. | Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. |
| 29. | A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. |
| 30. | My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat, |
| 31. | And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping. |