Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

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

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

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

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

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

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

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

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

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

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.