“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 [are] pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he 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,

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

Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?

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

"Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances {before it}.

"Oftentimes, a thing doth flourish, and men think that it may abide the sunshine. It shooteth forth the branches in its garden,

Mine own wife may not abide my breath, I was fain to speak fair for the children of mine own body.

If any man draw out a sword at him, it shall not hurt him: there may neither spear, javelin, nor breast plate abide him.

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

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