Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.