While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."