God is wise and all-powerful.
Who has opposed Him and come out unharmed?

Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

He saves the needy from their sharp words
and from the clutches of the powerful.

His powerful stride is shortened,
and his own schemes trip him up.

Why do the wicked continue to live,
growing old and becoming powerful?

while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.