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But if people are bound in chains, suffering for what they have done,

Those who are godless keep on being angry, and even when punished, they don't pray for help.

It will do you no good to cry out for help; all your strength can't help you now.

Don't wish for night to come, the time when nations will perish.

He has always been praised for what he does; you also must praise him.

He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.

And now the light in the sky is dazzling, too bright for us to look at it; and the sky has been swept clean by the wind.

In the dawn of that day the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.

I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.

The light of day is too bright for the wicked and restrains them from doing violence.

I keep them ready for times of trouble, for days of battle and war.

Who dug a channel for the pouring rain and cleared the way for the thunderstorm?

Do you find food for lions to eat, and satisfy hungry young lions

Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?

Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth?

The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat.

Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?

The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.

Does an eagle wait for your command to build its nest high in the mountains?

From there it watches near and far for something to kill and eat.