The mourning of the bound shall come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm let the sons of death remain

Point out to me, O Yahweh, thy way, I will walk steadfastly in thy truth, My heart will rejoice to revere thy Name.

O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
And a band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.

Your anger lies heavily upon me; you pound me with all your waves. Interlude

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

To hear the groaning of the bound; to loose the sons of death.

He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age-abiding and beyond.

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.

But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant,

They bound his feet with fetters and placed an iron collar on his neck,

To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

And he will strike their vine and their fig trees, and he will break the tree of their bound.

The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.

Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor, - and did eat sacrifices to the dead:

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief,

For your loyal love extends beyond the sky, and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

The LORD is exalted high above all the nations; his glory beyond the heavens.

God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

HE.Point out to me, O Yahweh, the way of thy statutes, that I may observe it unto the end.

That I may keep thy law continually, to times age-abiding and beyond.

The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.

I realize that everything has its limits, but your commands are beyond full comprehension.

Beyond mine enemies, will thy commandment make me wise, for, age-abidingly, shall it be mine.

Beyond all my teachers, have I shown discretion, for, thy testimonies, are my meditation.

Beyond the elders, will I show understanding, for, thy precepts, have I observed.

My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.

As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!

LORD, my heart is not arrogant, nor do I look haughty. I do not aspire to great things, nor concern myself with things beyond my ability.

For, I, know that great is Yahweh, yea, our Lord, is beyond all gods.

This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me.
It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.

If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee.

If I mount the wings of the dawn, settle down in the region beyond the sea,

I would recount them! Beyond the sands, they multiply, I rouse myself - and am still with thee.

Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.

I will extol thee, my God, O King, and will bless thy Name, to times age-abiding and beyond:

The Lord supports all who fall, and lifts up all who are bent over.

The praise of Yahweh, my mouth shall speak, That all flesh may bless his holy Name, Unto times age-abiding and beyond.

He did judgment for the oppressed; he gave bread to the hungering: Jehovah loosed those being bound.

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

Setting thy bound peace, he will fill thee with the fat of the wheat.

So caused he them to stand perpetually - age-abidingly, A decree, hath he given, and it passeth not beyond.

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

The [reverent] fear of the Lord [that is, worshiping Him and regarding Him as truly awesome] is the beginning and the preeminent part of knowledge [its starting point and its essence];
But arrogant fools despise [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction and self-discipline.

So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;

Whose paths are perverted, and in their tracks are bent aside:

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding.

Let, thine eyes, right onward, look, - and, thine eyelashes, point straight before thee.

Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech.

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;
he will be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

She sits by the doorway of her house,
on a seat at the highest point of the city,

The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.

The house of the proud will Jehovah sweep away, and he will set up the bound of the widow.

A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused him to bend over it.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.

Take his garment that became surety for a stranger: and bind him by a pledge for strange women.

More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.

The rich and the poor have a common bond,
The Lord is the maker of them all.

Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents],
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt;

Thou shalt not remove the old bound which thy fathers made.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:

Wisdom lies beyond reach of the fool; he has nothing to say in court.

He that setteth a fool in high dignity, that is even as if a man would bind a stone in a sling.

Take his garment pledging a stranger, and bind him by a pledge for a strange woman.

Even though you pound a [hardened, arrogant] fool [who rejects wisdom] in a mortar with a pestle like grain,
Yet his foolishness will not leave him.

A man who hardens his neck after much reproof
Will suddenly be broken beyond remedy.

Surely I am beyond the senselessness of any man; I do not perceive things the way human beings do.

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Three things are beyond me;
four I can’t understand:

The greyhound, or the he-goat, - and a king, having a band of soldiers with him.

A virtuous woman, who can find? for, far beyond corals, is her worth.

She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

I said to myself, “Look, I have amassed wisdom far beyond all those who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has thoroughly grasped wisdom and knowledge.”

I acquired, men-servants and women-servants, and, the children of the household, were mine, - also possessions, herds and flocks in abundance, were mine, beyond all who had been before me in Jerusalem;

Then I told myself, "Whatever happens to the fool will happen also to me. Therefore what's the point in being so wise?" And I told myself that this also is pointless.

Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

Do not become so very righteous, neither count thyself wise beyond measure, - wherefore shouldst thou destroy thyself?

All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, "I will be wise!" but {it was beyond my grasp}.

{Whatever is--it is far beyond comprehension}. Who can discover it?

The words of the wise, in quietness, are heard, - beyond the outcry of one who ruleth over dullards.

When an iron is blunt, and the point not sharpened, it must be whet again, and that with might. Even so doth wisdom follow diligence.

If a serpent strikes despite being charmed, there's no point in being a snake charmer.

When the guards of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent; the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows see dimly.