For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;

Lo, the river overfloweth he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.

And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.