17. who play among the birds of the air,
18. who store up treasures of silver and gold, in which men trust, and with whom there is no end to their acquiring, who work with silver and are anxious about it, and whose works are inexplicable?
19. They have been banished and have descended to hell, and others are risen up in their place.
20. The youth have seen the light and have dwelt upon the earth, yet they are ignorant of the way of instruction.
21. They have neither understood the paths of it, nor have their sons accepted it. It is far from their face.
22. It has not been heard of in the land of Canaan, nor has it been seen in Teman.
23. It is likewise with the sons of Hagar, who search for the practicality that is of the earth, the negotiators of Merran and Teman, and the storytellers, and the searchers of discretion and intelligence. Yet the way of wisdom they have not known, nor have they called to mind its paths.
24. O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how vast is the place of his possession!
25. It is great and has no end! It is exalted and immense!
26. There were those who were called giants, who existed from the beginning, of great stature, expert in war.
27. The Lord did not choose them, nor did they discover the way of instruction; for this reason they perished,
28. and, because they did not have wisdom, they passed away as a result of their foolishness.
29. Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?
30. Who has crossed the sea, and found her, and brought her, chosen instead of gold?
31. There is no one who is able to know her ways, nor any who can search out her paths.
32. Yet he who knows the universe is familiar with her, and in his foresight he invented her, he who prepared the earth for time without end, and filled it with cattle and four-footed beasts,
33. who sends out the light, and it goes, and who summoned it, and it obeyed him in fear.