For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;

I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?

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

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land.

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand;

if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?

Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also Jehovah added to Job all that had been his, to double.