and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

“Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?

when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?

Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,

His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”