If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

And these have You hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You.

to them alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

because I was not cut off before the darkness; yea, He covered the darkness from my face.

as I was in the days of my harvest, when the secret of God was on my tent;

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me;

The noble's voice was subdued, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.

I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.

My root was open to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Also, what profit for me was the strength of their hands, for full vigor had perished from them?

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

Did I not weep for him whose day was hard; and my soul grieved for the poor?

if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;

if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

If I rejoiced at the ruin of my hater, and I was excited when evil found him;

And these three men ceased from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer and had condemned Job.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,

Then the earth shook and trembled; and the foundations of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was angry.

And He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.

They went before me in the day of my calamity; but Jehovah was my stay.

I was also upright before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

They cried, but there was none to save; even to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.

I was cast on You from the womb; You are My God from My mother's belly.

I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,

O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

I was a reproach among all my foes, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my friends; those who saw me outside fled from me.

For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood.

But when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

As a friend, as to my brother, I walked; as one who mourns for a mother, I was bowed down, mourning.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.

I became dumb, keeping still; I was silent, from good; and my pain was stirred.

My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned; I spoke with my tongue:

I was dumb, I did not open my mouth; because You have done it.

For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.

God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind to see if any was discerning, who was seeking God.

There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for there were many with me.

The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, by which You upheld Your inheritance when it was weary.

They who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

When I thought deeply in order to understand this, it was painful for me,

For my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins.

So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You.

You cause judgment to be heard from Heaven; the earth feared and was still,

In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah; my hand was poured in the night, and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit fainted. Selah.

The voice of Your thunder was in the sky; the lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

Therefore Jehovah heard, and was made furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,

They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food was still in their mouths,

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their redeemer.

For their heart was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.

When God heard, He was angry, and turned away from Israel;

He also gave His people over to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance.

For this was a Precept for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

I will mention Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

And to Zion it shall be said, This man and that man was born in her; and the Highest shall establish her.

Jehovah shall count, in recording the peoples, that this man was born there. Selah.

For forty years I was grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways;

Zion heard and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of Your judgments, O Jehovah.

whose feet they hurt with chains; he was laid in iron,

He also brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen on them.

And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

And the waters covered their enemies; there was not one of them left.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Then Phinehas stood and interceded, and the plague was stayed.

And it was counted to him for righteousness to all generations forevermore.

and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood.

And the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against His people, and He detested His inheritance.

and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.

and He humbled their heart with labor; they fell down, and none was helping.

Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel was His kingdom.

The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back.

Jehovah keeps the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me.

I believed, therefore I have spoken; I was greatly afflicted;

This was done to me, because I kept Your Commandments.

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

I saw the traitors, and was grieved because they did not keep Your Word.

A Song of degrees; of David. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of Jehovah.