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"The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken.

Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered.

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

May a rush be green without moisture, or may the grass grow without water?


“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].

Or ask the green plants of the earth and they'll teach you; let the fish in the sea tell you.

Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,


“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.


“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban!

For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather the grain of thy threshing-floor?

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

And he called the name of the first, Jemimah: and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.