“Let all their wickedness come before You, And do to them as You have done to me For all my transgressions; For my sighs are many, And my heart is faint.”

The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,

Or subvert a man in his cause— The Lord does not approve.

Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?