“If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient?
But who can refrain from speaking?

“When they become waterless, they are silent,
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

“Indeed, you have now become such,
You see a terror and are afraid.

“An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

“O that you would be completely silent,
And that it would become your wisdom!

“As water evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,

“His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it;
Or they become insignificant, but he does not perceive it.

“He has lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ruins.

“He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend down to the ground.

“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

“Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?

“And now I have become their taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.

“He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

“You have become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You persecute me.

“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.

Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,
Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;

“Water becomes hard like stone,
And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

“Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field;
They leave and do not return to them.