Should he be told that I want to speak? Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?
Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
Now, no one can look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!