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

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

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

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

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

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

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.