What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

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.

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.