Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.

Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?

And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.