For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.