But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

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

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

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

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the oppressor.

My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

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

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

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

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

Have the gates of death been revealed unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they consoled him, and comforted him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.