Where were you when I established the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place,

Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

Don’t you know? You were already born;
you have lived so long!

Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?

Do you know when mountain goats give birth?
Have you watched the deer in labor?

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

I have spoken once, and I will not reply;
twice, but now I can add nothing.

Do you have an arm like God’s?
Can you thunder with a voice like His?

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

I had heard rumors about You,
but now my eyes have seen You.

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.

Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.”

“I have consecrated My King
on Zion, My holy mountain.”

I will declare the Lord’s decree:
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

I am not afraid of the thousands of people
who have taken their stand against me on every side.

You have put more joy in my heart
than they have when their grain and new wine abound.

Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice on my hands,

if I have done harm to one at peace with me
or have plundered my adversary without cause,

Rise up, Lord, in Your anger;
lift Yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;
awake for me;
You have ordained a judgment.

For the choir director: on the Gittith. A Davidic psalm.Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!

You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.

Because of Your adversaries,
You have established a stronghold
from the mouths of children and nursing infants
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

For You have upheld my just cause;
You are seated on Your throne as a righteous judge.

You have rebuked the nations:
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have erased their name forever and ever.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;
You have uprooted the cities,
and the very memory of them has perished.

Those who know Your name trust in You
because You have not abandoned
those who seek You, Yahweh.

The nations have fallen into the pit they made;
their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.

In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,

For the choir director. Davidic.I have taken refuge in the Lord.
How can you say to me,
“Escape to the mountain like a bird!

For the choir director: according to Sheminith. A Davidic psalm.Help, Lord, for no faithful one remains;
the loyal have disappeared from the human race.

They say, “Through our tongues we have power;
our lips are our own—who can be our master?”

My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

But I have trusted in Your faithful love;
my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides You.”

The boundary lines have fallen for me
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

Concerning what people do:
by the word of Your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.

My steps are on Your paths;
my feet have not slipped.

They have become hardened;
their mouths speak arrogantly.

With Your hand, Lord, save me from men,
from men of the world
whose portion is in this life:
You fill their bellies with what You have in store;
their sons are satisfied,
and they leave their surplus to their children.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.

Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mind
and have not disregarded His statutes.

You have given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your right hand upholds me,
and Your humility exalts me.

You have clothed me with strength for battle;
You subdue my adversaries beneath me.

You have made my enemies retreat before me;
I annihilate those who hate me.

You have freed me from the feuds among the people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

You have given him his heart’s desire
and have not denied the request of his lips.Selah

For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Davidic psalm.My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,
by night, yet I have no rest.

I was given over to You at birth;
You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

For dogs have surrounded me;
a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;
they pierced my hands and my feet.

Save me from the mouth of the lion!
You have rescued me
from the horns of the wild oxen.

Remember, Lord, Your compassion
and Your faithful love,
for they have existed from antiquity.

Davidic.Vindicate me, Lord,
because I have lived with integrity
and have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

I have asked one thing from the Lord;
it is what I desire:
to dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
gazing on the beauty of the Lord
and seeking Him in His temple.

Do not hide Your face from me;
do not turn Your servant away in anger.
You have been my helper;
do not leave me or abandon me,
God of my salvation.

Repay them according to what they have done—
according to the evil of their deeds.
Repay them according to the work of their hands;
give them back what they deserve.

A psalm; a dedication song for the house. Davidic.I will exalt You, Lord,
because You have lifted me up
and have not allowed my enemies
to triumph over me.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your faithful love
because You have seen my affliction.
You have known the troubles of my life

and have not handed me over to the enemy.
You have set my feet in a spacious place.

I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

How great is Your goodness
that You have stored up for those who fear You
and accomplished in the sight of everyone
for those who take refuge in You.

Many pains come to the wicked,
but the one who trusts in the Lord
will have faithful love surrounding him.

Do not let them say in their hearts,
“Aha! Just what we wanted.”
Do not let them say,
“We have swallowed him up!”

There the evildoers fall;
they have been thrown down and cannot rise.

The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow
to bring down the afflicted and needy
and to slaughter those whose way is upright.

I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
well-rooted like a flourishing native tree.

Watch the blameless and observe the upright,
for the man of peace will have a future.

For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,
and my life span as nothing in Your sight.
Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

I am speechless; I do not open my mouth
because of what You have done.

Lord my God, You have done many things—
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.

Then I said, “See, I have come;
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.

For troubles without number have surrounded me;
my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my courage leaves me.

I said, “Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

I will say to God, my rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”

For You are the God of my refuge.
Why have You rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.God, we have heard with our ears—
our ancestors have told us—
the work You accomplished in their days,
in days long ago:

But You have rejected and humiliated us;
You do not march out with our armies.

You make us retreat from the foe,
and those who hate us
have taken plunder for themselves.

All this has happened to us,
but we have not forgotten You
or betrayed Your covenant.

Our hearts have not turned back;
our steps have not strayed from Your path.

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals
and have covered us with deepest darkness.

wouldn’t God have found this out,
since He knows the secrets of the heart?

For we have sunk down to the dust;
our bodies cling to the ground.

The nobles of the peoples have assembled
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For the leaders of the earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.

Just as we heard, so we have seen
in the city of Yahweh of Hosts,
in the city of our God;
God will establish it forever.Selah

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?

You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.