For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan;

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

In want and hunger, they were lean, - who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

The lotus trees cover him with their shade, and willows that line the wadis surround him.