“How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm!”

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal.

He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.

You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;