He opens a shaft far away from people; they are forgotten by feet; they hang far away from men; they swing to and fro.
In the six hundredth year of Noaḥ’s life, in the second new moon, the seventeenth day of the moon, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
An end to darkness he has set, and to every limit he is searching, to rocks in deepest darkness.
Earth, out of which grows food, is turned underneath as by fire;