7. “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8. Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you.Let the fish in the sea speak to you.
9. For they all knowthat my disaster has come from the hand of the lord.
10. For the life of every living thing is in his hand,and the breath of every human being.
11. The ear tests the words it hearsjust as the mouth distinguishes between foods.
12. Wisdom belongs to the aged,and understanding to the old.
13. “But true wisdom and power are found in God;counsel and understanding are his.
14. What he destroys cannot be rebuilt.When he puts someone in prison, there is no escape.
15. If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert.If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.