so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.