7. “Remember that the innocent will not die;honest people will never be destroyed.
8. I have noticed that people who plow eviland plant trouble, harvest it.
9. God’s breath destroys them,and a blast of his anger kills them.
10. Lions may roar and growl,but when the teeth of a strong lion are broken,
11. that lion dies of hunger.The cubs of the mother lion are scattered.
12. “A word was brought to me in secret,and my ears heard a whisper of it.
13. It was during a nightmarewhen people are in deep sleep.
14. I was trembling with fear;all my bones were shaking.
15. A spirit glided past my face,and the hair on my body stood on end.
16. The spirit stopped,but I could not see what it was.A shape stood before my eyes,and I heard a quiet voice.
17. It said, ‘Can a human be more right than God?Can a person be pure before his maker?
18. God does not trust his angels;he blames them for mistakes.
19. So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses,whose foundations are made of dust,who can be crushed like a moth.