Who can uncover its outer covering? ¹  Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? ² 

Whoever strikes it with a sword ¹  will have no effect, ²  nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

You will free me ¹  from the net they hid for me, for you are my place of refuge.

I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past. ¹ 

If they say, “Come with us! We will ¹  lie in wait ²  to shed blood; ³  we will ambush ⁴  an innocent person ⁵  capriciously. ⁶ 

The one who conceals hatred utters lies, ¹  and the one who spreads ²  slander ³  is certainly ⁴  a fool.

A shrewd person ¹  sees danger ²  and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going ³  and suffer for it. ⁴ 

Like a coating of glaze ¹  over earthenware are fervent ²  lips with an evil heart. ³ 

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going ¹  and suffer for it.

Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.

You too will act like drunkards; ¹  you will go into hiding; ²  you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

For everyone who asks ¹  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Nothing is hidden ¹  that will not be revealed, ²  and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ¹  ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ ² 

Or these men here ¹  should tell what crime ²  they found me guilty of ³  when I stood before the council, ⁴ 

The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees ¹  match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

or in the warp or woof ¹  of the linen or the wool, or in leather or anything made of leather, ² 

He told ¹  them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

It emerges from the distant horizon, ¹  and goes from one end of the sky to the other; ²  nothing can escape ³  its heat.

O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. ¹  Then you rejected me ²  and I was terrified.