Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.

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

Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?

Who set its measurements – if you know – or who stretched a measuring line across it?

On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone –

Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?