030:013 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help. 030:014 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in. 030:015 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud. 030:016 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me. 030:017 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. 030:018 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. 030:019 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. 030:020 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me. 030:021 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me. 030:022 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm. 030:023 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living. 030:024 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? 030:025 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy? 030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness. 030:027 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me. 030:028 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. 030:029 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. 030:030 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat. 030:031 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep. 031:001 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? 031:002 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? 031:003 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? 031:004 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps? 031:005 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit 031:006 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); 031:007 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, 031:008 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out. 031:009 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, 031:010 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. 031:011 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges: 031:012 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.