There is no darkness, no deep darkness,
where evildoers can hide themselves.

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides [his] face, and who can behold him? Yet [he is] over a nation and over a person alike,

For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

Even though you complain that you can't perceive him, your case is already pending for judgment in his presence so keep on placing your hope in him.

Can your wealth or all your physical exertion
keep you from distress?

Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

Lo, God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

"Moreover, {can anyone understand} [the] spreading of clouds, [the] thundering of his dwelling place?

His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.

with him can you spread out [the] skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

Should He be told that I want to speak?
Can a man speak when he is confused?

And now men can not look on the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and clears them.

“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].

We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend."

so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

"Can you bind [the] chains of [the] Pleiades, or can you loosen [the] cords of Orion?

Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?

Do you know heaven's statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars,

"Can you hunt prey for [the] lion? And can you satisfy [the] hunger of strong lions

Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?

Can you number [the] months they fulfill, and do you know [the] time of its giving birth?

Can you tie [the] wild ox [with] its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow [the] valleys after you?

Can you trust it because its strength [is] great, or will you hand your labor over to it?

Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and [that] it will gather [it] to your threshing floor?

“Yet when she lifts herself on high,
[So swift is she that] she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? the majesty of his snorting is terrible.

“With fierceness and rage he races to devour the ground,
And he does not stand still at the sound of the [war] trumpet.

When the trumpet blasts he'll neigh, "Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their shouting."

He abideth in the stony rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come.

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

I am so insignificant. How can I answer You?
I place my hand over my mouth.

I have spoken once, and I will not reply;
twice, but now I can add nothing.

Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?

Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

And I will also praise you, that your [own] right hand can save you.

He is the first of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Can anyone take it by its eyes? Can he pierce [its] nose with a snare?

"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?

Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

Will he make a covenant with you
so that you can take him as a slave forever?

Can you play with him like a bird
or put him on a leash for your girls?

Can you fill his skin with harpoons? or his head with fish spears?

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine.

Who can remove the face of his garment? or who can approach him with a double bridle?

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible all around.

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.

His breath can ignite coal; and flames proceed from his mouth.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.

If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”

I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.