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While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'

Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea,

Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

And yet, ask, I pray thee, [One of] the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.

And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --

Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,

Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see,

Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light [is] over the skirts of the earth.

From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it [is] mine.