“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

“You have not given water to the weary to drink,
And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;
As bread for their children in the desert.

“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,
[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;
They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

“[As for] the earth, out of it comes food,
But underneath [its surface, down deep] it is turned over as fire.

“They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans],
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

Then all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him over all the [distressing] adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him a piece of money, and each a ring of gold.