"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

He'll deliver the afflicted through their afflictions and open their ears when they are oppressed."

And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

Who ordained his path for him, and who has asked him, "You are wrong, aren't you?'

All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.

Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

His hands are covered with lightning that he commands to strike his designated target.

“His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence;
The cattle also are told of His coming storm.

“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,
That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].

By God's breath, ice is given, and [the] broad waters [are] frozen.

And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,

“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],
The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,

How thy garments are warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

Hast thou helped him to spread out the heavens, which are strong and bright as a looking glass?

Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness.

There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any {who think that they are wise}."

On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone;

To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days are many!

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?

when they are crouched in the dens, [when] they lie in the thicket in an ambush?

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

"Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

Can you count the months they are pregnant
so you can know the time they give birth?

Or when they lie down, when they cast their young ones, and when they are delivered of their travail and pain?

Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

"[The] wings of [the] female ostrich flap-- [are they] [the] pinions of [the] stork or [the] falcon?

And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced are -- there is he!

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty],
And array yourself with honor and majesty.

stared down and subdued every proud person, trampled the wicked right where they are,

He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

His bones are tubes of brass, His bones are as a bar of iron.

He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

Are your eyes looking to capture him, or to pierce his snout with a bridle?"

"Or, who hath given me anything afore hand, that I am bound to reward him again? All things under heaven are mine.

The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth are terrible.

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.

One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are not separated.

His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes are as the eyelids of the dawn.

Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.

The folds of his flesh are joined together: they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.

From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.

Darts are counted as straw: he laughs at the threat of a javelin.

Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."

I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.