Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

you asked, ‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.