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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me (38:12) I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me (38:13) Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me (38:14) What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul (38:15) O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live (38:16) Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back (38:17) For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth (38:18) The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth (38:19) The Lord [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord (38:20) For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover (38:21) Hezekiah also had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
(38:22)
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