By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.

If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.

At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,

As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;

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

Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.

If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest it.

When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame,
But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.

In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

Hand to hand, the wicked man shall not be held innocent, but, the seed of the righteous, hath been delivered.

No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil.

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

You'll vomit up what little you've eaten, and your compliments will have been wasted.

My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'

Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.

Weak have been the two legs of the lame, And a parable in the mouth of fools.

Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

A generation! Pure in its own eyes, yet, from its filth, hath it not been bathed,

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four -- it is not able to bear:

If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the {afflicted}.

She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.