“Does the ear not put words to the test,
Just as the palate tastes its food [distinguishing between the desirable and the undesirable]?

One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them.

Neither is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

{Between morning and evening} they are destroyed; without [anyone] regarding [it] they perish forever.

Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread [the] presses, but they are thirsty.

{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.

With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.