Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,