Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’