⁶ And I -- I have said in mine ease, `I am not moved -- to the age.

¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

¹⁹ My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

²⁰ My honour `is' fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

³⁰ the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?

¹² `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'

⁷ And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.

¹¹⁷ Support Thou me, and I am saved, And I look on Thy statutes continually.

⁸ I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because -- at my right hand I am not moved.

⁵ His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

⁶ He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

⁷ and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.