Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?

Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?

Your hands have made me and fashioned me together totally; yet you do destroy me.

Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?

Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have knit me together with bones and sinews.

You have granted me life and favor, and your care has preserved my spirit.

And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.

If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me:

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!

Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

“Would He not let my few days alone?
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.

If you have any iniquity, throw it far away. Don't let evil live in your residence.

Then mightest thou lift up thy face without shame! Then shouldest thou be sure, and have no need to fear.

For you will forget your suffering,
recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected--{you will sleep in safety}.

And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?

"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.

{Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

Have not the ears pleasure in hearing, and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

He poureth out confusion upon princes, and comforteth them that have been oppressed.

Look, my eyes have seen all this;
my ears have heard and understood it.

According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.

But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

“But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully];
You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.

Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?

Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

"{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may].

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

I have this as my salvation: the godless person won't be appearing before him.

Pay attention to what I have to say and listen to my testimony with your own ears."

Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

Only grant these two things to me, God,
so that I will not have to hide from Your presence:

How many iniquities and sins have I committed?
Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this to bring me into a legal fight with you?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,

Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up;

You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.

Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

“Should a wise man [such as you] utter such windy and vain knowledge [as we have just heard]
And fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?

Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?

Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.

Have you heard the council of God? and do you limit wisdom to yourself?

What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.

“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?

Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash

That you should turn your spirit against God
And let such words [as you have spoken] go out of your mouth?

Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?

and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?

But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust.

Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.

Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.

When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

My days have slipped by;
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.

They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'

If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

Where now is my hope?
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.

His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.

"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.