<p class="poetry">He deprives the trusted advisers<n id="1" /> of speech<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and takes away the discernment<n id="3" /> of elders.p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> God<n id="2" /> puts no trust in<n id="3" /> his servants<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and attributes<n id="5" /> folly<n id="6" /> to his angels,p>

<p class="poetry">If I summoned him, and he answered me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I would not believe<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that he would be listening to my voice &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">If God places no trust in his holy ones,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if even the heavens<n id="2" /> are not pure in his eyes,p>

<p class="poetry">Let him not trust in what is worthless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">deceiving himself;p> <p class="poetry">for worthlessness will be his reward.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But God<n id="1" /> drags off the mighty by his power;p> <p class="poetry">when God<n id="2" /> rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Can you count on<n id="1" /> it to bring in<n id="2" /> your grain,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and gather the grain<n id="4" /> to your threshing floor?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">He does not expect<n id="1" /> to escape from darkness;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he is marked for the sword;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it cannot stand still<n id="2" /> when the trumpet is blown.p>