An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and do not return again.