“I have seen the foolish taking root,
And I cursed his abode immediately.

“You will know that your tent is secure,
For you will visit your abode and fear no loss.

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

[There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, - and abode, as king, in an army, as one who, to mourners, giveth comfort.

“Where is the way where light dwells?
And as for darkness, where is its place,

“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust],
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

“In Leviathan’s neck resides strength,
And dismay and terror dance before him.

When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?

Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold.

Are there not mockers around me? and doth not mine eye abide in their provocation?