His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist,

“Those in the west are astonished and appalled at his fate,
And those in the east are seized with horror.

“Behold, I go forward (to the east), but He is not there;
I go backward (to the west), but I cannot perceive Him;

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Where wast thou, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the children of God rejoiced triumphantly?

"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place,

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?