<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> his sons are honored,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he does not know it;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">if they are brought low,p> <p class="poetry">he does not see<n id="4" /> it.p>

<p class="poetry">For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he does not let anything he desires<n id="2" /> escape.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you have said, &#8216;What does God know?p> <p class="poetry">Does he judge through such deep darkness?<n id="1" />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">Mankind does not know its place;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it cannot be found in the land of the living.p>

<p class="poetry">God understands the way to it,p> <p class="poetry">and he alone knows its place.p>

<p class="poetry">For he<n id="1" /> knows deceitful<n id="2" /> men;p> <p class="poetry">when he sees evil, will he not<n id="3" /> consider it?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Which of all these<n id="1" /> does not knowp> <p class="poetry">that the hand of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> has done<n id="3" /> this,p>

<p class="poetry">he wanders about &#8211; food for vultures;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Surely such is the residence<n id="1" /> of an evil man;p> <p class="poetry">and this is the place of one who has not known God.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">And further,<n id="1" /> when you sayp> <p class="poetry">that his anger does not punish,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and that he does not know transgression!<n id="3" />p>