Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance?

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

When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.

Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?

It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,

I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

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

They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

[Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?

And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.

Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.

Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, while ye searched out what to say.

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.

They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say.

[Thou say,] Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.

He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

If thou have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.

[him] who says to a king, [Thou are] vile, to ranking men, [Ye are] wicked,

Men of understanding will say to me, yes, every wise man who hears me,

But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,

How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?

For he says to the snow, Fall thou on the earth, likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

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

Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

As often as the trumpet [sounds] he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.