22 Thou hast lifted me up, and made me toss about in the wind, and thou hast crushed me.

E-23 Now, I know that You're going to bring me to death, and to the meeting house of all the living.

24 Surely He will not stretch out His hand against the house of the bones: shall they cry out at their destruction?

25 Did I not weep for him who was in the woe? Did not my soul grieve for the poor?

26 As I longed for good, evil came; As I waited for the light, darkness came.

27 My intestines boil and do not cease; Days of sorrow greeted me.

28 I walk blackened, but not of the sun; I stand up in the congregation and shout.

E-29 I've become a brother to jackals and a friend to ostriches.

30 My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.

31 And my zither became sad, and my pipe became a voice of lamentation.

Chapter 31

1 I have made a covenant with my eyes, that I should not think of a virgin.

2 What is my fate from God from on high? And what is the inheritance from the Almighty from heaven?

3 Is it not for the wicked to perish, and for him that doeth evil to attack?

4 Did he not see my ways, and count all my steps?

5 If I walked in vanity, and if my foot hastened to wickedness,

6 Let them weigh me in the scales of righteousness, and God will know my integrity.

7 If my feet have strayed from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any unclean thing has come to my hands,

8 then let me sow, and another eat, and let my branches be rooted out.

9 If my heart was deceived by a woman, and I built snares at my neighbor's door,

10 Let my wife grind on another, and let others mock her,