1 Observe the shamayim, you children of the shamayim, and every work of the Most High, and revere Him and work no evil in His presence.
2 If He closes the windows of the shamayim, and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what will you do then?
3 And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, you cannot petition Him; for you spoke proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore you shall have no peace.
4 And do you not see the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in much trouble?
5 And therefore they fear because all their pleasant possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will perish therein.
6 Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most High, and has He not appointed limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by the sand?
7 And at His rebuke it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; but you sinners that are on the earth do not revere Him.
8 Has He not made the shamayim and the earth, and all that is in them; who has given understanding and wisdom to all that moves on the earth and in the sea?
9 Do not the sailors of the ships revere the sea? Yet sinners do not revere the Most High.