Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.

When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;

When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea, my fulness of delight, was with the sons of men.

So, is a man who deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Was not, I, in sport?

The words of Lemuel the king, - the strain which was taught him by his mother: -