He sang before men, and said, I sinned, and, uprightness, I perverted, yet he requited me not;

Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

Moreover, Elihu {spoke up} and said,

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Then Elihu continued and said,

Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you,
for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.

Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said - that they should turn from iniquity.

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?

Then Yahweh answered Job and said,

So Job answered Yahweh and said,

I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

“[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’
Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

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

For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD 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.

And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

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,

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

The voice of Jehovah will cause the hinds to bring forth, and will uncover the forests: and in his temple every one said, Glory.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

For I said, Lest they shall rejoice over me: in the wavering of my foot they magnified against me.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I hid not thy justice within my heart; I said thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I hid not thy mercy and thy truth to the great convocation.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

{To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth 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?"

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.

Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

For mine enemies said to me, and they watching my soul took counsel together,

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

I said, "I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me." (Selah)

I said, "During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully." I tried to make sense of what was happening.

And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

I said, 'Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

I said, “You are gods;
you are all sons of the Most High.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”

Glorious things are said about you,
city of God.Selah

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, "This one was born there."

And it will be said of Zion,
“This one and that one were born in her.”
The Most High Himself will establish her.

For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said - Return, ye sons of Adam!

Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.