I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.
Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand, my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,
when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
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