7. Remember, please: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? And where have the straight ones ever been cut off?
8. According to what I have seen, those who plough wickedness and sow suffering reap the same.
9. Through the breath of Eloah they perish, and through the Spirit of His nostrils they are consumed.
10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, but the teeth of the young lions shall be broken.
11. An old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12. And unto me a word was secretly brought, and my ear received a little of it.
13. Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14. fear came upon me, and trembling, causing my bones to shake greatly.
15. Then a spirit passed before my face, the hair on my body stood up.
16. It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes – silence, then a voice I heard,
17. ‘Is mortal man more righteous than Eloah? Is man more clean than his Maker?