³⁵ He will accept no compensation
    and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.

⁹ And so people are humbled,
    and everyone is brought low—
    [[do not forgive them!^(A)

²⁵ Before the mountains had been shaped,
    before the hills, I was brought forth,^(A)

¹³ She seizes him and kisses him,
    and with impudent face she says to him:

³ When I was a son with my father,
    tender and my mother’s favorite,^(A)