¹⁰ for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

¹¹ lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

²² And I -- I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

⁸ Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

¹⁸ And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

⁵⁴ Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

⁵⁵ I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.

⁵⁶ My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry.

⁵⁷ Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.

⁵⁸ Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.

² And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

³ When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

⁴ And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

⁵ Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

⁶ To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

⁷ In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

¹ And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth `us' always to pray, and not to faint,

³ ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.