And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.