4:14 He called out loudly 1 as follows: 2
‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches!
Strip off its foliage
and scatter its fruit!
Let the animals flee from under it
and the birds from its branches!
4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. 3
He does as he wishes with the army of heaven
and with those who inhabit the earth.
No one slaps 4 his hand
and says to him, ‘What have you done?’
1 tn Aram “in strength.”
2 tn Aram “and thus he was saying.”
3 tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew
4 tn Aram “strikes against.”