“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.

Thou shalt see also, that thy seed shall increase, and that thy posterity shall be as the grass upon the earth.

“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?

“How long will you say these things?
And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

"Should a wise man's answer be as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east?

They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.

The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,

I would be as I was in the days of my youth
when God’s friendship rested on my tent,

Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth.

Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.