Family Verses

Behold, {as} wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness {yieldeth} food for them {and} for {their} children.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

How much less man, {that is} a worm? and the son of man, {which is} a worm?

If his children be multiplied, {it is} for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

When the Almighty {was} yet with me, {when} my children {were} about me;

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.

I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.

But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}

{They were} children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. {base...: Heb. men of no name}

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.