But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

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

Or as an 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.

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

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

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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

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

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath 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 opened unto thee? or hast thou 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 bemoaned 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 earring of gold.