It remained standing, but I couldn't recognize its appearance. A form appeared before my eyes; At first there was silence, and then this voice:

His children are far from deliverance; they'll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.

While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.

So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,

before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.

But I want to talk to the Almighty; and I'm determined to argue my case before God."

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

Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God.

"Were you the first personto be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.

Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors.

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?

I would lay out my case before him; and fill my mouth with arguments.

Sheol is naked before God and Abaddon has no clothes.

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

He won't examine mankind further, that they would go before God to judgment.

Then all his brothers and sisters and all those who knew him before arrived. They ate food with him in his house, mourned for him, and consoled him for all the trouble that the LORD had brought and placed on him. Some gave him gold bullion and some brought gold earrings.