Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

You will call and I – I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.

“Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice –

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.

Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.