Olam 2

I will shew thee, hear me; and that <i>which</i> I have seen I will declare;

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid <i>it</i>:

Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

The wicked man travaileth with pain all <i>his</i> days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

A dreadful sound <i>is</i> in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

He wandereth abroad for bread, <i>saying</i>, Where <i>is it</i>? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

He runneth upon him, <i>even</i> on <i>his</i> neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: