For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night,(how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?