As a result, the cries of the poor have reached him and he has heard the cry of the afflicted.

Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?

Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.

He stretches out [the] north over emptiness; [he] hangs [the] earth {over nothing}.

but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides [his] face, and who can behold him? Yet [he is] over a nation and over a person alike,