As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.