They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked –

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, ‘You have done what is wicked’?

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”