For he neither believed nor prayed, 31 But only disavowed and turned away; 32 then he went back to his kinsfolk, elated with pride. 33 [And yet, O man, thine end comes hourly] nearer unto thee, and nearer 34 Again your ruin has come close, still closer. 35 Does man think that he is to be left to wander without an aim? 36 Was he not an emitted drop of semen, 37 Was he not turned into a clot of blood? God then formed him and gave him proper shape. 38 fashioning out of him the two sexes, the male and the female? 39 Does He, then, not have the power to bring back the dead to life? 40