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

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.

He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.