27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
28. He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
29. he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
30. he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
31. For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
32. but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:
33. for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
34. To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35. to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36. to wrong a man in his cause, --will not the Lord see it?
37. Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
38. Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?