For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.

By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

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.