Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;

You, LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hid myself from him.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. 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;

Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia."

which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

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

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

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

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there."

Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.

The LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of your judgments, LORD.

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

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

He rebuked the Sea of Suf also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

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

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia."

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

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

What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the LORD's house."

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

"They hit me, and I was not hurt. They beat me, and I do not feel it. When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

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

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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