2 If we assay to commune with thee wilt thou be grieved but who can withhold himself from speaking

3 Behold thou hast instructed many and thou hast strengthened the weak hands

4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees

5 But now it is come upon thee and thou faintest it toucheth thee and thou art troubled

6 Is not this thy fear thy confidence thy hope and the uprightness of thy ways

7 Remember I pray thee who ever perished being innocent or where were the righteous cut off

8 Even as I have seen they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same

9 By the blast of God they perish and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed

10 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions are broken

11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me and mine ear received a little thereof

13 In thoughts from the visions of the night when deep sleep falleth on men

14 Fear came upon me and trembling which made all my bones to shake

15 Then a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up

16 It stood still but I could not discern the form thereof an image was before mine eyes there was silence and I heard a voice saying

17 Shall mortal man be more just than God shall a man be more pure than his maker

18 Behold he put no trust in his servants and his angels he charged with folly

19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust which are crushed before the moth

20 They are destroyed from morning to evening they perish for ever without any regarding it

21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away they die even without wisdom