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10 If a relative or a mortician
    comes to take the dead bodies out of the house
        and asks someone who is inside the house,
            “Is there anyone else with you?”
                that person will answer, “No.”
                    “Hush,” he will add.
    “We shouldn’t mention the name of Yahweh!”
11 Yahweh is going to give the command
    to level big houses and flatten little houses.

12 Do horses run on rocks?
    Does a farmer plow the sea with oxen?
    Yet, you have turned justice into something deadly
        and what is righteous into poison.

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