16. Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
17. “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18. Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
19. Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
20. Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21. Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
22. Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
23. Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
24. “Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.
25. All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
26. Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
27. For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
28. Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
29. Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
30. Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
31. For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
32. He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.