Unless the Lord builds the house, its
builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord guards the city, the
watchman wakens in vain.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit down at your meal late,
And so eat the
bread of toil; for he gives to his
loved ones sleep.
Children too are a gift from the Lord, they are a reward.
As
arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the
children of youth.
Happy indeed is the
man whose quiver is full of them,
He shall not be put to
shame when he argues with foes in the court.