²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?^(A)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(B)
The Lord is the everlasting^(C) God,
    the Creator^(D) of the ends of the earth.^(E)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(F)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(G)
29 He gives strength^(H) to the weary^(I)
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men^(J) stumble and fall;^(K)
31 but those who hope^(L) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.^(M)
They will soar on wings like eagles;^(N)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.^(O)

³⁰ I went past the field of a sluggard,^(A)
    past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
³¹ thorns had come up everywhere,
    the ground was covered with weeds,
    and the stone wall was in ruins.
³² I applied my heart to what I observed
    and learned a lesson from what I saw:
³³ A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(B)—
³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.^(C)