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The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;

Job 29

And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.

The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.