“Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren.

Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good,

“They are gaunt with want and famine;
They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.

that it watereth and moistureth the dry and barren ground:

Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,