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.

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple (naive).

that God would decide that he would crush me, [that] he would let loose his hand and {kill me}.

If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?

I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

“My transgression is sealed up in a bag,
And You cover my wickedness [from Your view].

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,
And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;
the flame of his fire does not glow.

I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response;
I call for help, but there is no justice.

I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth.

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill 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.

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

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

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

But if a man call upon God, doth not he hear him? Doth not the Almighty accept his cry?

As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.

Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome majesty surrounds Him.

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you?

Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.

Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

And he will call the name of the one, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-Happuch.