6Is not this your fear, your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways, your hope? 7Remember, now, whoever perished while innocent? Or where were the righteous destroyed? 8From what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9They perish by the blast of God, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed. 10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered.

12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little of it. 13Amid thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14Fear and dread came upon me, which made me tremble and my bones shake. 15Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 16It stood still, but I could not discern its form; an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker? 18Behold, He puts no trust in His servants; and His angels He charged with folly: 19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a the moth? 20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without any noticing it. 21Does not the excellency within them go away? They die without gaining wisdom.