Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,

and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

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

Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

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

For he needs no further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?

Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou should take him for a servant forever?

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Under the whole heaven is mine.