Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.