He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?

Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.

that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath?

just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

"Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God's behalf.

Do you have an arm as powerful as God's, and can you thunder with a voice like his?