“For God has made my heart faint,
And the Almighty has terrified me,

“But now adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant;
It touches you, and you are horrified.

“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
So that he does not abandon (turn away from) the fear of the Almighty.

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],
The faintest whisper of His voice!
Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”