And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:

Who said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do to us?

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Surely our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you.

For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God.

For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God charges not folly to them.

He evil treats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would scarcely flee out of his hand.

God understands its way, and he knows its place.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the open square!

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he comes, what shall I answer him?

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could not endure.

This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath aroused, because he justified himself rather than God.

Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God vanquishes him, not man.

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.

Behold, I am according to your wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Lo, all these things works God twice, three times, with man,

Let us choose for us justice: let us know among ourselves what is good.

For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my justice.

For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

Therefore hearken unto me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

For he will not lay upon man more than what is right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Surely it is fitting to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

For he adds rebellion unto his sin, he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.

Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Bear with me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Behold, God is mighty, and despises no one: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.

By the breath of God ice is given: and the broad waters are frozen.

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Do you know when God dispatched them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is awesome majesty.

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Who provides for the raven its food? when its young ones cry unto God, they wander about for lack of food.

Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?

He is the first of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto you will I pray.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts.

My defense is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.

Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

[A miktam of David.] Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.