² yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we -- are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

⁵⁷ and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

² he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'

⁸ And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.

³ Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah `are' sons, A reward `is' the fruit of the womb.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So `are' the sons of the young men.

⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

² The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.

³ Thy wife `is' as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

⁴ Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

² If ye hearken not, and if ye lay `it' not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying `it' to heart.