[Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?

Your words have raised up [the one who] stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.

[Is] not your fear [in God] your confidence? [Is not] your hope even the integrity of your ways?

The paths of their way wind [around]; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.

My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

But [the] righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands} increases in strength.

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.

Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him [for what] he has done?

[Is] it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless?

Will you keep [to the] way of old that [the] people of mischief have trod,

"Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; {in this way}, good will come to you.

And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

He gives security to him, and he is supported, but his eyes [are] upon their ways.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"God understands its way, and he knows its place,

{when he made} a rule for the rain and a way for [the] thunder's lightning bolt,

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

Indeed, God speaks in one [way], even in two, [yet] [someone] does not perceive it.

Indeed, he will repay [according to] a human being's deeds, and according to a man's way he will let [it] happen [to] him.

"Indeed, his eyes [are] upon [the] ways of man, and he sees all his steps.

because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways,

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, 'You have done wrong'?

"God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place,

Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light is distributed, [where] he scatters [the] east wind upon [the] earth?

"Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for [the] {thunder bolts},