Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.

They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Let my wife grind [meal, like a bond slave] for another [man],
And let others kneel down over her.

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

{They die in their youth}, and their life [ends] among the male shrine prostitutes.

Who letteth the wild ass go free, or who looseth the bonds of the mule?

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his male organs are wrapped together.

“Who can penetrate or strip off his outer armor?
Who can come to his jaws with a double bridle?

As for him that assaileth him, the sword availeth not, spear, dart, or coat of mail: