“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

“I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?