Who hath cloven - for the torrent - a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;

“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],

If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive,

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

When the dust grows into clumps, and the clods cleave fast together?

My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

The members of his body are joined so strait one to another, and cleave so fast together, that he cannot be moved.

Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.

His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:

Each to its fellow, they cleave, they grasp each other, and cannot be parted;

You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.

And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.

On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'