To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

Job again took up his parable, and said,

when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'

If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

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

If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Elihu also continued, and said,

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh 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.

Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

"Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son." A Psalm by David.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power. For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm by David.

His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake. For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

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 have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,