Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: {himself: Heb. his soul, or, life}

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good {thing}.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one {is} an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand {is} stretched out still. {folly: or, villany}

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race {is} not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

{Their} bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with {him that is} full of days.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

For death is come up into our windows, {and} is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, {and} the young men from the streets.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he {was} faint:

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. {after...: Heb. at the end of days}

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Moab is spoiled, and gone up {out of} her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name {is} the LORD of hosts. {his...: Heb. the choice of}

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.