Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?

For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin?

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my iniquity.

But his flesh is pained within him; and his soul mourns over him.

God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

The trap shall take him by the heel, and the noose shall hold sway over him.

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and watch shall be kept over his tomb.

He stretches out the north over the empty place, and He hung the earth on nothing.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;

He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

Shall your companions bargain over him? Shall they divide him among the merchants?

He beholds all high things; he is a king over all the sons of pride.

And came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had known him before. And they ate bread with him in his house, and consoled him and comforted him over all the evil that Jehovah had brought on him. Each one also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold.