“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

“Behold now, I have prepared my case;
I know that I will be vindicated.

“Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

“I would present my case before Him
And fill my mouth with arguments.

“I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?

And my heart became secretly enticed,
And my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

“How much less when you say you do not behold Him,
The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

“Teach us what we shall say to Him;
We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.

He named the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.