where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

“For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

Surely it is an empty cry – God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

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!

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,