and said, "Let the day perish, wherein I was born,

Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.

Insomuch, that wherein soever thou hadst little afore, thou shouldest now have great abundance.

"He maketh the wains of heaven; the Orion, the seven stars, and the secret places of the south.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

He shall perish, before his time be worn out, and his hand shall not be green.

would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.

so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow.

where iron is digged out of the ground, and stones resolved to metal.

wherein the proud and high minded walk not, and where no lion cometh.

Hast thou brought the seven stars together? Or art thou able to loose the bands of Orion?

His shins are like pipes of brass, his ridge bones are like staves of iron.

He setteth as much by a straw as by iron, and as much by a rotten stock as by metal.