He frustrates 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 is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there], and backward, but I cannot perceive him,

on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.

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

Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor 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 waste and desolation.

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

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.

[O] the Almighty, we cannot find him out. He is excellent in power. And in justice and abundant righteousness he will not afflict.

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

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

If a man lays 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 into stubble with him.