He loosens the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a belt.

Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.

He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him.

[Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,

when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,

that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?

Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

She dwells on the cliff, and makes her home upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

Will thou play with him as with a bird? Or will thou bind him for thy maidens?