Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

"Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

Do you not know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and do not miscarry.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Do you not know their evidences,

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

"Why aren't times made known by Shaddai? Why do not those who know him see his days?

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

He devours the barren who do not bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with Shaddai will I not conceal.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

He binds the streams that they do not trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

After my words they did not speak again. My speech fell on them.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They did not reject the light of my face.

They abhor me, they keep their distance from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and did not dare show you my opinion.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

"They are amazed. They answer no more. They do not have a word to say.

Shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

Please do not let me respect any man's person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

For I do not know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.

"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will Shaddai pervert justice.

For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Teach me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will Shaddai regard it.

How much less when you say you do not see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him.

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.

Do not let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.