Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?

However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.

Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?

For God speaks once, yea twice, [though man] does not regard it.

who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,

Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted [their] right.

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.

Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty, and he does not restrain [the lightnings] when his voice is heard.

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

Men therefore fear him. He does not regard any who are wise of heart.

He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.

He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.

He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.

If a man does not repent, he will whet his sword. He has bent his bow, and made it ready.

For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?

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 together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor,

he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Blessed is the man to whom LORD does not impute sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

A horse is a vain thing for safety, nor does he deliver any by his great power.

He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

By this I know that thou delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish.

Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

who holds our soul in life, and does not allow our feet to be moved.

For LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his prisoners.

Blessed be LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Has his loving kindness entirely gone forever? Does his promise fail for evermore?

Thou are the God who does wonders. Thou have made known thy strength among the peoples.

A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

Blessed are those who keep justice, and he who does righteousness at all times.

He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly, and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of LORD does valiantly.

The right hand of LORD is exalted. The right hand of LORD does valiantly.

to him who alone does great wonders, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

He does not delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, [and] she does not know.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy.

A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

He who does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

There is he who covets greedily all the day long, but the righteous gives and does not withhold.

If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

The door turns upon its hinges, so does the sluggard upon his bed.

For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?

He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that does not say, Enough.

She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out by night.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?

I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.

A man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

Be not hasty to go out of his presence. Persist not in an evil matter, for he does whatever pleases him.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man and to the clean man and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man,

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.

If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must increase strength. But wisdom is advantageous to make right.

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?

When he has leveled the face of it, does he not cast abroad the chick-peas, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?

Bread [grain] is ground, for he will not be always threshing it. And though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.

The highways lay waste. The wayfaring man ceases. [The enemy] has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He does not regard man.

Thou see many things, but thou do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Behold, thou shall call a nation that thou do not know. And a nation that does not know thee shall run to thee because of LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified thee.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goes in it does not know peace.

Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.

To what purpose does there come to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

and say thou to them, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant,