The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?

if you are pure and upright,
then He will move even now on your behalf
and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”

But a man dies and fades away;
he breathes his last—where is he?

He wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it?”
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

where then is my hope?
Who can see any hope for me?

He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.

he will vanish forever like his own dung.
Those who know him will ask, “Where is he?”

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?”
and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”

Surely there is a mine for silver
and a place where gold is refined.

But where can wisdom be found,
and where is understanding located?

Where then does wisdom come from,
and where is understanding located?

There is no darkness, no deep darkness,
where evildoers can hide themselves.

But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,
who provides us with songs in the night,

Where were you when I established the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,

Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;
its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

Look on every proud person and humble him;
trample the wicked where they stand.