It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

If he cuts off, and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall follow after him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways blameless?

Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

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

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

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

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?

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants; even in places forgotten of the foot: they are gone away from men, they swing to and fro.

If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

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

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the thunder of his tabernacle?

And now men can not look on the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and clears them.

Can you bind the cluster of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or can you guide Arcturus with its children?

Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set their dominion in the earth?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto you, Here we are?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the water skins of heaven,

Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?

Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?

Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you?

Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? the majesty of his snorting is terrible.

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

Then will I also confess unto you that your own right hand can save you.

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

Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

Can you put a rope in his nose? or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Can you fill his skin with harpoons? or his head with fish spears?

Who can remove the face of his garment? or who can approach him with a double bridle?

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible all around.

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

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

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults.

I can count all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

All the prosperous of earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: at your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.

In God, I will praise his word, in God, I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

The stouthearted are plundered, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might can lift their hands.

Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Behold, he struck the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide meat for his people?

For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place there shall know it no more.

Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can show forth all his praise?

I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul:

Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

For the gain from it is better than the gain from silver, and the profit thereof than fine gold.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her.

Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey:

He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

A man's steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that can answer reasonably.

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no lack of gain.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can a man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done.

For who can eat, or who else can have enjoyment, more than I?

He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.