If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;

Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.

Will ye turn, at my reproof? Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit, I will make known my words to you.

When thou sittest down, thou shalt have no dread, yea thou shalt lie down, and sweet shall be thy sleep.

So he taught me, and said to me - Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live!

How long, O sluggard, wilt thou lie? how long ere thou rise from thy sleep?

And lo! a woman, came to meet him, attired as one unchaste, of a wily heart.

Lo! the righteous, in the earth shall be recompensed, how much more the lawless and the sinner.

Though thou say, Lo! we knew not this, Shall not, he that proveth hearts, himself, discern? And, he that formeth thy soul, himself, know? and bring back to a son of earth according to his deed?

Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest;

And lo! there had come up all over it - thorns, there had covered the face thereof - thistles, and, the stone fence thereof, had been thrown down.

The loftiness of a man, layeth him low, - but, one of a lowly spirit, shall attain unto honour.

Her hands, she putteth forth to the distaff, and, her palms, lay hold of the spindle: