Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Their houses are in peace, without fear; nor is the rod of God on them.

Their bull mates and does not fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Behold, their good is not in their hand; the wisdom of the wicked is far from me.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their trouble comes on them! He shares out pains in His anger;

Did you not ask those who go by the way? And do you not know their signs,

And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him and every man shall draw after him, as there is no numbering of those before him.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?

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

Yet He filled their houses with substance; and the wisdom of the wicked is far from me.

Truly our foe is not cut down, and fire has eaten their wealth.

There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot see Him;

Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.

In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

He is swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

He gives safety to him, and he rests on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Is there any number of His armies? And on whom does not His light arise?

Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place where they refine gold.

There is a path which no bird knows, nor has the vulture's eye caught sight of it;

when His lamp shone on my head; I walked through darkness by His light;

The rulers held back from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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

And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

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

those plucking mallows by the bushes, and broom roots for their food.

And now I am their song; yea, I am their byword.

On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin.

As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin.

Surely He will not stretch out His hand to the ruin-heap, though they cry in their misfortune.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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

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.

then He opens the ear of men and seals their teaching,

If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness,

Lo, all these things God does two or three times with a man,

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death to hide there the workers of iniquity.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their place.

Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns in the night, so that they are destroyed.

There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

Wait for me a little, and I will show you that there are yet words for God.

then He shows them their work, and their sins, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from iniquity.

If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.

Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites.

He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.

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

And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

Can you bring the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with its sons?

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set up their rulership on the earth?

when they crouch in dens, and sit in the cover of their hiding place?

Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time for their bearing,

when they bow down and bring forth; they send out their pangs.

Their young ones are strong, they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them again.

From there he seeks food, and his eyes see afar off.

And his young brood also sucks up blood; and where the dead are, there he is.

Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in darkness.

For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.

The lotus trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook surround him.

Shall any take him before his eyes, or pierce through his nose with cords?

On earth there is nothing like him, one made without fear.

He also had seven sons and three daughters.

And in all the land there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

Let us break their bands in two and cast away their cords from us.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled in but a little time. Blessed are all who put their trust in Him.

Many are saying of my soul, There is no deliverance for him in God. Selah.

There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

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

But let all who put their trust in You rejoice; let them always shout for joy, because You defend them. And let those who love Your name be joyful in You.

For in death there is no memory of You; in the grave who shall give You thanks?

lest he tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and all that pass through the paths of the seas.

You have rebuked the heathen, You have destroyed the wicked, You have put out their name forever and ever.

The desolations of the enemy have come to an end forever, and You have destroyed the cities; their memorial has perished with them.

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek You.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Through the pride of his face the wicked will not seek Him; There is no God in all his schemes.

Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear,

for lo, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow on the string, so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

On the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

Jehovah looked down from Heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God.

All have gone aside, together they are filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

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

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who run after another god. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood; and I will not take their names on my lips.

They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly,

they have now hemmed in our steps, they have set their eyes to bow me to the earth,