19. Can your wealth or all your physical exertionkeep you from distress?
20. Do not long for the nightwhen nations will disappear from their places.
21. Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,for that is why you have been tested by affliction.
22. Look, God shows Himself exalted by His power.Who is a teacher like Him?
23. Who has appointed His way for Him,and who has declared, “You have done wrong”?
24. Remember that you should praise His work,which people have sung about.
25. All mankind has seen it;people have looked at it from a distance.
26. Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of His years cannot be counted.
27. For He makes waterdrops evaporate; they distill the rain into its mist,
28. which the clouds pour outand shower abundantly on mankind.
29. Can anyone understand how the clouds spread outor how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?
30. See how He spreads His lightning around Himand covers the depths of the sea.
31. For He judges the nations with these;He gives food in abundance.
32. He covers His hands with lightningand commands it to hit its mark.