Now his sons were wont to go, and make a banquet, at the house of each one upon his day, - and to send and call their three sisters, to eat and to drink with them.

How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:

Call, I pray thee - is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?

Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.

If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?

Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?

Then call thou, and, I, will answer, Or I will speak, and reply thou unto me.

Thou shouldst call, and, I, would answer thee, - For the work of thine own hand, thou shouldst long.

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

His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!

It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain it upon him for his punishment.

He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back, - yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him - terrors:

When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -

Verily, in the Almighty, he will not find delight, nor call on GOD continually!

Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!

It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;