what will I do when God stands up to act? When he asks the questions, how will I answer him?

if I've raised my hand against an orphan when I thought I would against him in court,

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?

I'll give an account for every step I've taken; I'll approach him confidently like a Commander-in-Chief."

Furthermore, he was furious with his three friends because they had not answered Job, but instead had condemned him.

However, a spirit exists in mankind, and the Almighty's breath gives him insight."

let him not direct a rebuke toward me. I won't be responding to him with your arguments.

"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

Why are you arguing with him? He doesn't have to give explanations for what he does to you!

turning a person from his actions, keeping him from pride,

to show favor to him and to plead, "Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit I know where his ransom is!'

Let his flesh be rejuvenated as he was in his youth! Let him recover the strength of his youth.

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

to bring back his soul from the Pit; to light him with the light of life."

because he repays a person for his behavior; and according to a person's conduct, he lets it happen to him.

Who entrusted the earth to him? Who made him responsible for the entire inhabited world?

Can one who hates justice really govern? And if God is righteous and mighty, can you condemn him?

There's no such thing as darkness to him not even deep darkness that can conceal those who practice evil.

because they've abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways.

As a result, the cries of the poor have reached him and he has heard the cry of the afflicted.

"If he remains silent, who will condemn him? If he conceals his face, who can see him? He watches over both nation and individual alike,

"Should you not be paid back, since you have rejected him? You do the choosing! I won't! Tell us what you know!

If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?

If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts?

Even though you complain that you can't perceive him, your case is already pending for judgment in his presence so keep on placing your hope in him.

If they listen and serve him, they'll finish their lives in prosperity and their years will be pleasant.

"Indeed, God is exalted in his power. Who is like him as a teacher?

Who ordained his path for him, and who has asked him, "You are wrong, aren't you?'

All of mankind sees him; human beings observe him from afar off."

Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness?

Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend."

Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?

Will you trust him that he'll bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?"

Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?

"Should the one who is fighting the Almighty find fault with him? Let God's accuser answer."

The LORD answered Job from the wind storm and told him:

He is the grandest of God's undertakings, yet his creator is approaching him with his sword.

Mountains produce food for him, where all the wild animals frolic.

The lotus trees cover him with their shade, and willows that line the wadis surround him.

What you see as a raging river doesn't alarm him; he is confident when the Jordan overflows.

Are your eyes looking to capture him, or to pierce his snout with a bridle?"

Will he try to make a deal with you, so that you may take him in servitude forever?

"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?

Will your business be able to buy him, Will you divide him among your merchant friends?

Lay your hand on him, and you'll remember the struggle. You'll never do that again!

"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.

No one is fierce enough to dare to arouse him. "Who, then, can stand in my presence and face me?

Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can approach him with a bridle?

"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.

There is no flaw in his body's armor; it is firmly fixed on him and unbreachable.

"Thrusting at him with a sword won't be effective, nor will spears, darts, or javelins.

Arrows won't make him flee; stones from a sling are only pebbles to him.

"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.

"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear.

So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I'll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn't speak about me correctly as did my servant Job."

Then all his brothers and sisters and all those who knew him before arrived. They ate food with him in his house, mourned for him, and consoled him for all the trouble that the LORD had brought and placed on him. Some gave him gold bullion and some brought gold earrings.

Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm, when he fled from his son Absalom.

Many are saying about me, "God will never deliver him!"

But understand this: the LORD has set apart the godly for himself! The LORD will hear me when I cry out to him!

Indeed, you will bless the righteous one, LORD, like a large shield, you will surround him with favor. To the Director: With stringed instruments. On an eight-stringed harp. A Davidic Psalm

then, let my enemy pursue me, let him overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground. Interlude Let him put my honor into the dust.

what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?

You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.

You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

Indeed, the LORD is righteous; he loves righteousness; the upright will see him face-to-face. To the Director: On an eight stringed harp. A Davidic Psalm.

Otherwise, my enemy will say, "I have overcome him;" Otherwise, my persecutor will rejoice when I am shaken.

But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy surrounding him was dark waters and thick clouds.

The brightness before him scattered the thick clouds, with hail stones and flashes of fire.

I was upright before him, and I kept myself from iniquity.

As for God, his way is upright; the word of God is pure; he is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Now I know that the LORD has delivered his anointed; he has answered him from his sanctuary with the strength of his right hand of deliverance.

You have granted him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld what his lips requested. Interlude

You go before him with wonderful blessings, and put a crown of fine gold on his head.

He asked life from you, and you gave it to him a long life for ever and ever.

His glory is great because of your deliverance, you have given him honor and majesty.

Indeed, you have given him eternal blessings; you will make him glad with the joy of your presence.

They say, "Commit yourself to the LORD; perhaps the LORD will deliver him, perhaps he will cause him to escape, since he delights in him."

"All who fear the LORD, praise him! All the seed of Jacob, glorify him! All the seed of Israel, fear him!

For he does not despise nor detest the afflicted person; he does not hide his face from him, but he hears him when he cries out to him."

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him, "May you live forever!"

Our descendants will serve him, and that generation will be told about the Lord.

This is the generation that seeks him. Those who seek your face are the true seed of Jacob. Interlude

Who is the man who fears the LORD? God will teach him the path he should choose.

The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I received help. My heart rejoices, and I give thanks to him with my song.

Therefore every godly person should pray to you at such a time. Surely a flood of great waters will not reach him.

With the lyre, give thanks to the LORD; with the ten stringed harp, play music to him;

with a new song, sing to him; with shouts of joy, play skillfully.

Let all the world fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him;

Indeed, the LORD watches those who fear him; those who trust in his gracious love

Indeed, our heart will rejoice in him, because we have placed our trust in his holy name.

LORD, may your gracious love be upon us, even as we hope in you. By David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away. So David left.

Look to him and be radiant; and you will not be ashamed.

This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard and delivered him from all of his distress.

The angel of the LORD surrounds those who fear him, and he delivers them.

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the person who trusts in him!

Fear the LORD, you holy ones of his; for those who fear him lack nothing.