For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.

For I was son to my father; tender and only before the face of my mother.

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly.

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters.

In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:

The just one was delivered from straits, and the unjust will come in his stead.

The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.

A heart of joy will do the face good: and by pains of heart the spirit was dejected.

The way of the slothful as the cutting of the thorn: and the path of the upright was raised up.

The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.,

Judgment was prepared for those mocking, and blows for the back of the foolish.

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.

And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown.

The slothful one hid his hand in the dish; he was weary to turn it back to his mouth.

The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered.

For three the earth was moved, and for four, which it shall not be able to lift up:

She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread.

Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land.