“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

“The dead tremble – those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!