Look, the Lord will throw you far away, ¹  you mere man! ²  He will wrap you up tightly. ³ 

Why should any living person ¹  complain when punished for his sins? ² 

Cush was the father of ¹  Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Elat on the coast in the land of Edom.

They agreed ¹  to make large seagoing merchant ships; ²  they built the ships in Ezion Geber.

If a man dies, will he live again? ¹  All the days of my hard service ²  I will wait ³  until my release comes. ⁴ 

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings ²  with a person,

No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. ¹  (Selah)

For as the skies are high above the earth, so his loyal love towers ¹  over his faithful followers. ² 

For his loyal love towers ¹  over us, and the Lord’s faithfulness endures. Praise the Lord!

To show partiality ¹  is terrible, ²  for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread. ³ 

They do not jostle one another; ¹  each of them marches straight ahead. ²  They burst through ³  the city defenses ⁴  and do not break ranks.

They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. ¹  They defraud people of their homes, ²  and deprive people of the land they have inherited. ³ 

He was a mighty hunter ¹  before the Lord. ²  (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

So we turned away from our relatives ¹  the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, ²  from Elat ³  and Ezion Geber, ⁴  and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder ¹  – a girl or two for each man to rape! ²  Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, ³  he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, ⁴  two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!’ ⁵ 

Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.

King Solomon also built ships ¹  in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships ¹  to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

the way ¹  of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman. ²