He is wandering for bread -- 'Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread.

If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.

The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.

And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.