While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

Surely this is the joy of his way of life;
yet others will sprout from the dust.

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him,
that we can take each other to court.

Should your babbling put others to silence,
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?

When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”
God will save the humble.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.

Have I covered my transgressions as others do
by hiding my guilt in my heart,

He shatters the mighty without an investigation
and sets others in their place.