Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?

Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

Dost thou trust in him because great is his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck with a mane?

Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?

Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?

There is not - upon the dust - his like, that hath been made to be without fear;

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.