and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

“The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.

‘Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?
They die, yet without wisdom.’

Who does great and unsearchable things,
Wonders without number.

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

Who does great things, unfathomable,
And wondrous works without number.

“For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court together.

“He makes the nations great, then destroys them;
He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

“Is not your wickedness great,
And your iniquities without end?

“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;

Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?

“God thunders with His voice wondrously,
Doing great things which we cannot comprehend.

“You know, for you were born then,
And the number of your days is great!

“Will you trust him because his strength is great
And leave your labor to him?

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?