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And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that [his] anguish was very great.

That day—let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;

So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words are vehement.