or

Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?

Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:

Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.

Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe ouer his fodder?

1611 marginal noteHebr. at grasse.

Can that which is vnsauery, bee eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?

1611 marginal noteHe.brasen.

Did I say, Bring vnto mee? or giue a reward for me of your substance?

Or deliuer me from the enemies hand, or redeeme me from the hand of the mighty?

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me?