And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.

See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.

I will make a song to the Lord, because he has given me my reward.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

For the king has faith in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he will not be moved.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.

If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.