For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death?

Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold.