Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.

At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

After this lived Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever.

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.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.

Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.] Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

When I cry unto you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.

Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever.

This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your hearts shall live that seek God.

O God, you have taught me from my youth: and to this day have I declared your wondrous works.

Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the tribe of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.

But I will declare this forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was angry: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

For all this they sinned still, and believed not despite his wondrous works.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

When God heard this, he was full of anger, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

The LORD shall count, when he registers the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people who shall be created shall praise the LORD.

So is this great and wide sea, which teems with things innumerable, both small and great.

Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.

Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore.

But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD.

This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.

This I had, because I kept your precepts.

They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants.

The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from this time forth even forever.

Let Israel hope in the LORD from this time forth and forever.

This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and plead with your friend.

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.

That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.

Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

And whatsoever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my reward of all my labor.

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored in it shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after him shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping after the wind.

He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.

And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for this is his lot.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this one has more rest than the other.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

Whatever has been is named already, and it is known that this is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Say you not, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withhold not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all.