127 Unless Yahweh builds the house,
    they who build it labor in vain.
Unless Yahweh watches over the city,
    the watchman guards it in vain.
² It is vain for you to rise up early,
    to stay up late,
    eating the bread of toil,
    for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
³ Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.
    The fruit of the womb is his reward.
⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
    so are the children of youth.
⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
    They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.