O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

"Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?

Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly?

Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

And so he died, being old and of a perfect age.