<p class="poetry">He has searched<n id="1" /> the sources<n id="2" /> of the riversp> <p class="poetry">and what was hidden he has brought into the light.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Who shut up<n id="1" /> the sea with doorsp> <p class="poetry">when it burst forth,<n id="2" /> coming out of the womb,p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Why did I not<n id="2" /> die<n id="3" /> at birth,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and why did I not expirep> <p class="poetry">as<n id="5" /> I came out of the womb?p>

<p class="poetry">Will they not<n id="1" /> instruct you and<n id="2" /> speak to you,p> <p class="poetry">and bring forth words<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">from their understanding?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He is a well-watered plant<n id="1" /> in<n id="2" /> the sun,p> <p class="poetry">its shoots spread<n id="3" /> over its garden.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Why then did you bring me out from the womb?p> <p class="poetry">I should have died<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and no eye would have seen me!p>

<p class="poetry">He reveals the deep things of darkness,p> <p class="poetry">and brings deep shadows<n id="1" /> into the light.p>

<p class="poetry">He grows up<n id="1" /> like a flower and then withers away;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">when you turn your rage<n id="1" /> against Godp> <p class="poetry">and allow such words to escape<n id="2" /> from your mouth?p>

<p class="poetry">When he pulls it out<n id="1" /> and it comes out of his back,p> <p class="poetry">the gleaming point<n id="2" /> out of his liver,p> <p class="poetry">terrors come over him.p>

<p class="poetry">But he knows the pathway that I take;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">To whom<n id="1" /> did you utter these words?p> <p class="poetry">And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth, from which food comes,p> <p class="poetry">is overturned below as though by fire;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">When I went out to the city gatep> <p class="poetry">and secured my seat in the public square,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen carefully<n id="1" /> to the thunder of his voice,p> <p class="poetry">to the rumbling<n id="2" /> that proceeds from his mouth.p>

<p class="poetry">From whose womb does the ice emerge,p> <p class="poetry">and the frost from the sky,<n id="1" /> who gives birth to it,p>

<p class="poetry">Can you lead outp> <p class="poetry">the constellations<n id="1" /> in their seasons,p> <p class="poetry">or guide the Bear with its cubs?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they go off, and do not return to them.p>

<p class="poetry">It<n id="1" /> paws the ground in the valley,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">exulting mightily,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">it goes out to meet the weapons.p>

<p class="poetry">Smoke streams from its nostrilsp> <p class="poetry">as from a boiling pot over burning<n id="1" /> rushes.p>