‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed;
Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.

“There is no arbitrator between us,
Who could lay his hand upon us both [would that there were].

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

“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

“The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened,
And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].

“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters
At the boundary between light and darkness.

“One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.