5:12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty
so that their hands cannot accomplish
what they had planned!
5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
and they come to an end without hope.
14:21 If his sons are honored,
he does not know it;
if they are brought low,
he does not see it.
15:24 Distress and anguish terrify him;
they prevail against him
like a king ready to launch an attack,
15:28 he lived in ruined towns
and in houses where no one lives,
where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
17:6 He has made me a byword to people,
I am the one in whose face they spit.
17:12 These men change night into day;
they say, ‘The light is near
in the face of darkness.’
21:12 They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp,
and make merry to the sound of the flute.
21:14 So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us!
We do not want to know your ways.
21:18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
22:17 They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’
and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
24:17 For all of them, the morning is to them
like deep darkness;
they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
30:3 gaunt with want and hunger,
they would gnaw the parched land,
in former time desolate and waste.
31:13 “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants
or my female servants
when they disputed with me,
31:16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,
or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
33:15 In a dream, a night vision,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they sleep in their beds.
39:4 Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open;
they go off, and do not return to them.
39:13 “The wings of the ostrich flap with joy,
but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?