“You will know also that your descendants will be many,
And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

“Does the wild donkey bray over his grass,
Or does the ox low over his fodder?

or “Deliver me from the enemy’s power”
or “Redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless”?

Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.

Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

It blasts at him without mercy,
while he flees desperately from its grasp.

To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

that the mountains should give him grass, where all the beasts of the field take their pastime.

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

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.