Part 26

18:030:011 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

18:030:012 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

18:030:013 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

18:030:014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

18:030:015 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

18:030:016 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

18:030:017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

18:030:018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

18:030:019 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

18:030:020 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

18:030:021 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

18:030:022 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

18:030:023 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

18:030:024 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

18:030:025 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

18:030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

18:030:027 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

18:030:028 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

18:030:029 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

18:030:030 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

18:030:031 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

18:031:001 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

18:031:002 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

18:031:003 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

18:031:004 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

18:031:005 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

18:031:006 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

18:031:007 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;