4 ‘I have become a laughing-stock to my friends,though I called on God and he answered –a mere laughing-stock, though righteous and blameless!
5 Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortuneas the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed,and those who provoke God are secure –those whom God has in his hand.
7 ‘But ask the animals, and they will teach you,or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not knowthat the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creatureand the breath of all mankind.