The righteous also will keep his way, and he that hath clean hands, will ever be stronger and stronger.

Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.

My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.

All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them.

My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart,

I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.

O deliver me and set me by thee: who shall then be able to thrust my hands together?

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

"As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.

changing the night into day, and the light into darkness.

Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow.

Virtuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shall take part against the hypocrite.

What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?