For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.