He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.

From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.