“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’