11. The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
12. Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.
13. In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
14. Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
15. And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
16. There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:
17. Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18. Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: