⁸Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

¹⁰If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

¹⁴Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

¹⁵Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

²¹Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

¹⁶For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

²As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

¹¹Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

²⁹When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

¹¹Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

³¹The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

³²For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

³³Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

⁶Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

⁷Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

¹⁶Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

³⁸But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

³⁹Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

²³He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

³Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

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

²⁴This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

²⁵That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

²⁶And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.

⁶Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

²⁰For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

⁵Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

²³And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;