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 do You see as a man sees?

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

‘Have You not poured me out like milk
And curdled me like cheese?

‘[You have] clothed me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews.

‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this is with Thee.

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

If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

""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 out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’

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

And thou sayest, 'Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

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

“For you would forget your trouble,
As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee, thou shalt take rest in safety.

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

But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail, - and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.

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

I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like 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.

Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of 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].

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument 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."

Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

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? My transgression and my sin let me know.

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

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so 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 gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry.

Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of 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]?

Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

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

"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.

“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 shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.

'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 ye all.

Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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 exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.

“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

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.

Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

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

O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

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

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

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

“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

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

If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.

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.

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.

And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.

My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,