and suddenly there came a mighty great wind out of the South, and smote the four corners of the house: which fell upon thy children, so that they are dead, and I alone am gotten away, to tell thee."

The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.

"O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!

What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?

To deliver me from the enemy's hand, or to save me from the power of the mighty?

He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

If he came by me, I might not look upon him: if he went his way, I should not perceive it.

that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

He leadeth away the priests into captivity, and turneth the mighty upside down.

Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?

Though a body might plead with God, as one man doth with another,

One dieth now when he is mighty and at his best, rich and in prosperity;

O that I might see him and find him: O that I might come before his seat,

That I might know, what answer he would give me: and that I might understand, what he would say unto me.

They pluck down the mighty with their power, and when they themselves are gotten up, they are never without fear, as long as they live.

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

When he set the rain in order, and gave the mighty floods a law;

when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths;

The power and strength of their hands might do me no good, and as for their age, it is spent and past away without any profit.

For else the men of understanding and wisdom, that have heard me, might say: 'What canst thou speak?'

For such one never sayeth, 'Where is God that made me? And that shineth upon us, that we might praise him in the night?

"Behold, God casteth not away the mighty, for he himself is mighty in power and wisdom.

Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down?

Behold, God is of a mighty high power: Where is there such a guide and lawgiver as he?

He sendeth fear upon every man, that they might know their own works.

that it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the ungodly might be shaken out?

She remembereth not that they might be trodden with feet or broken with some wild beast.

Darest thou lay hand upon him? It is better for thee to consider what harm might happen thee therethrough, and not to touch him.