A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that [is] its name.

[Whoso] hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.

honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.