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

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand justice.

Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

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

How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.

Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him?

If you are righteous, what give you to him? or what receives he of your hand?

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings they are on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.

And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

By the breath of God ice is given: and the broad waters are frozen.

How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?

Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart.

On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone;

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

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

His bones are as strong pieces of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron.

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible all around.

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

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be parted.

By his sneezings a light flashes, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

The folds of his flesh are joined together: they are firm on him; they cannot be moved.

When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: because of his crashings they are beside themselves.

The arrow cannot make him flee: clingstones with him are turned into stubble.

Darts are counted as straw: he laughs at the threat of a javelin.

His undersides are like sharp stones: he spreads sharp pointed marks upon the mire.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

The LORD is King forever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

The wicked prowl on every side, when vile men are exalted.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

They are enclosed in their own fat hearts: with their mouth they speak proudly.

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform.

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my body.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, you are my God.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.

He is ever merciful, and lends; and his descendants are blessed.