"But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,

he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

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

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'"

Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."

But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

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

From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,