Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Is it good to You that You should press down, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?

If a man informs on his friends for a price,
the eyes of his children will fail.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

Then the angel is gracious to him, and says,
‘Spare him from going down to the pit [of destruction];
I have found a ransom [a consideration, or reason for redemption, an atonement]!’

Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

The flaps of his flesh adhered: it will press upon him; it will not be moved.

His heart will press as a stone; and it will press as the under millstone.

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.