37. MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
38. MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
39. MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
40. NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
41. NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
42. NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
43. SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
44. SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.