Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom – for true wisdom has two sides – so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.

“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.

My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

Men of understanding say to me – any wise man listening to me says –

But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?

(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.