He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

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

On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.

They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.

If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.