But, unto me, something was brought by stealth, - and mine ear caught a whispering of the same:

As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves - the proud helpers.

But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;

His sons, come to honour, and he knoweth it not, Or they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not of them.

The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?

A wanderer, he, for bread, saying Where is it ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;

But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.

Be ye afraid - on your part - of the face of the sword, because, wrath, bringeth the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.

No water - to the weary, hast thou given to drink, and, from the hungry, thou hast withheld broad:

Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!

If his children be multiplied, for them, there is the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;

As for the earth, out of it, cometh forth bread, and, under it, is upturned, as it were fire;

Seeing it hath been hid from the eyes of every living thing, and, from the bird of the heavens, hath it been concealed?

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

On my right hand, the young brood rose up, - My feet, they thrust aside, and cast up against me their earthworks of destruction;

I will respond, even I - on my part, I will shew my knowledge, even I!

To turn a son of earth from his deed, while yet, pride, from man he concealeth:

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

By the breath of GOD, is given - frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed;

Yet, now, men see not the light, bright though it is in the skies, when, a wind, hath passed over, and cleansed them.

Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?

And, his young brood, suck up blood, and, where the slain are, there, is he.

Wilt thou sport with him, as with a little bird? Or wilt thou bind him, for thy maidens?

Shall the companions bargain over him? or will they part him among the traders?

A pride, are his arched sides, closed up, with a firm seal;

Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house, - and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him, - and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a ring of gold.