They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek; they are filled with my pains.
I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.
And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.
For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.
Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him forth.
And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head.
And he said to David: Thou art more just than I. For thou hast done good to me; and I have rewarded thee with evil.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the face of the judges thereof. And if it be not he, who is it then?
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
He hath gathered together his fury against me; and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me. My enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.
God hath shut me up with the unjust man: and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
At least now, understand that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
Hide them in the dust together: and plunge their faces into the pit.