he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

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

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.