For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.