Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

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.

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

Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do you?

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

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.

But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto 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 the fame of it with our ears.

Therefore I say, Hearken to me; I also will show my opinion.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, while you searched out what to say.

Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God vanquishes him, not man.

Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

If you have any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.

Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?

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

Although you say you shall not see him, yet justice is before him; therefore you must trust in him.

Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

For he says to the snow, Be on the earth; likewise to the gentle rain, and to the heavy rain of his strength.

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech because of darkness.

Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto you, Here we are?

He says among the trumpets, Aha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.