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when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
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and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
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to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
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“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
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Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
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His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
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“Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
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You will be protected from the lash of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction comes.
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You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the wild animals.
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You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
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Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
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deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?
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Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?
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Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?
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so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
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I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
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Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
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“Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
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It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
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When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
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you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
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I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.
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“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
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to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
