Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?

It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!

The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.

For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;

for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

"The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God's terrors have been arranged just for me!

So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

Since I cannot help myself,
the hope for success has been banished from me.

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

They are ashamed because they had been confident of finding water.
When they arrive there, they are frustrated.

"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

"Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

I have been condemned; why then should I labor in vain?

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.

Yet, these things, thou didst hide in thy heart, I know that, this, hath been with thee!

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

“Why did You bring me out of the womb?
I should have died and never been seen.

I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

And thou sayest, 'Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

He poureth out confusion upon princes, and comforteth them that have been oppressed.

Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.

Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:

In the secret council of GOD, hast thou been wont to hearken? Or canst thou attain for thyself unto wisdom?

Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:

"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.

Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves are for me.

My days have slipped by;
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

"Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.

Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill-clad, hast thou stripped off:

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

Who had been saying unto GOD, Depart from us! and - What can the Almighty do for himself?

And he hath filled their houses with good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

'Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'

And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver is strength to thee.

He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.

Also -- to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

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

Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.

Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

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

To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

"Whenever I went out to the city gate, a seat had been reserved for me in the plaza.