Lament for Sitis, Job’s Wife
1Who is not amazed that this is Sitis, the wife of Job?
2Who used to have fourteen draperies sheltering her chamber and a door within doors, so that one was considered quite worthy merely to gain admission to her presence:
3Now she exchanges her hair for loaves!
4Whose camels, loaded with good things, used to go off into the regions of the poor:
Now…
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