Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;

Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.