“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.

“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.

“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

“The eye which saw him sees him no longer,
And his place no longer beholds him.

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
My ear has heard and understood it.

“The path no bird of prey knows,
Nor has the falcon’s eye caught sight of it.

“He hews out channels through the rocks,
And his eye sees anything precious.

“For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,
And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;