Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart,

"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

"It is he, himself, alone. Who will turn him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to pass what he will.

"Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me;

The power and strength of their hands might do me no good, and as for their age, it is spent and past away without any profit.

In times past thou didst set me up on high, as it were above the wind, but now hast thou given me a very sore fall.

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.