The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;

Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,

Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.