When it is warm, they are silent and cease to flow;
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

“He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.

“Even young children despise me;
When I get up, they speak against me.

“I must speak so that I may get relief;
I will open my lips and answer.

So that light may take hold of the corners of the earth
And shake the wickedness out of it?

“The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor [does] the spear, the dart, or the javelin.