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

For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, “The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants – it has consumed them! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”