Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

“The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?

Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?

“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?

Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away?

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,