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"Look! We have thought all this through, and what we've said is true; So please listen and learn for your own good!"
"Instruct me, and I'll remain silent. Help me understand where I've gone astray.
Truly I've been allotted months of emptiness; nights of trouble have been appointed for me.
For I've said, "My bed will comfort me; my couch will ease my burdens while I complain.'
but how can a person be justified before God?
Who commands the sun, and it does not shine;
Who seals up the stars [from view];
""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.
""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
You've accused me of bitter things; you've caused me to reap the sins of my youth.
You've locked my feet in stocks; you watch all my steps; You've limited where I can walk.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.
'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.
His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.
"After all, you've taken collateral from your relatives for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.
You've neglected to give water to the weary, and you've withheld food from the hungry.
You've asked, "What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?'
I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."
Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we've heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?"
"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,
"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!
But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence.
They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
"If I've lived my life in the company of vanity, or run quickly to embrace deception,
"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door,
without letting the fatherless eat any of it—
if I've observed someone who is about to die for lack of clothes or if I have no clothing to give to the poor,
if I've raised my hand against an orphan when I thought I would against him in court,
"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, "You're my security,'
if I've found joy in great wealth that I own, if I've earned a lot with my own hands,
I'll give an account for every step I've taken; I'll approach him confidently like a Commander-in-Chief."
If I've consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners;
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge.
"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.
He strikes them for their wickedness,
because they've abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways.
After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: "What will I profit from refraining from sin?'
I've heard you with my ears; and now I've seen you with my eyes.
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