Have you understood the breadth of the earth? Tell, if you know it all!

that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should know the paths to its house?

How is it, the way the light is distributed, and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth?

to cause rain to fall on the earth where no man is, a wilderness and no man in it;

Out of whose womb came the ice? And the frost of the heavens, who fathered it?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom; or who can empty out the jars of the heavens,

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

Who has sent out the wild ass free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass,

He seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain-floor?

At the time she lifts herself up on high, she scorns the horse and its rider.

He mocks at fear, and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.

He swallows the ground with quivering and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

Does the eagle mount up at your command and make his nest on high?

Shall a reprover contend with the Almighty? He who reproves God, let him answer it.

Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth.

And Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest, and said,

Can you draw out the leviathan with a hook, or hold down his tongue with a cord?

Lay your hand on him, think of the battle; you will never do it again.

Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?

Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out.

Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds.

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

He counts iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

Darts are counted as straw; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.

Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know.

And it happened after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

And now take to yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of Me what is right, like My servant Job.

And came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had known him before. And they ate bread with him in his house, and consoled him and comforted him over all the evil that Jehovah had brought on him. Each one also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; Jehovah shall mock at them.

I cried to Jehovah with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill. Selah.

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.

To the Chief Musician, for eight-stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in Your anger, nor chasten me in the heat of Your fury.

My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all my enemies.

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

let the enemy persecute my soul and take it; yea, let him trample down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

And the congregation of the peoples shall surround You; and over it You will return on high.

If he does not turn, He will whet His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have ordained strength, because of ones vexing You, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;

what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?

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

His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil one; seek out his wickedness, until You find none.

Jehovah is King forever and ever; the nations have perished out of His land.

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.

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

To the Chief Musician, on eight. A Psalm of David. Help, Jehovah, for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Zion? When Jehovah brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah; he has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall not be moved forever.

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.

I have set Jehovah always before Me; because He is at My right hand, I shall not be moved.

You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joys. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O Jehovah; listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, for it is not in lips of deceit.

Let my judgment go out from Your presence; let Your eyes behold uprightly.

Set out Your wonderful loving-kindness, O Savior of those seeking refuge in You, by Your right hand, from those who rise up against me.

In my distress I called on Jehovah, and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, into His ears.

A smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire devoured out of His mouth; coals were kindled by it.

At the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire passed.

Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and crushed them.

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at Your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters.

It is God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.

You have given a wide place for my steps under me, so that my feet have not slipped.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets.

The sons of strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their strongholds.

It is God who avenges me, and humbles the people under me.

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

sending you help from the sanctuary, and upholding you out of Zion.

Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.

All who see Me mock me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother's breasts.

They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.

I can count all My bones; they look and stare at Me.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Jehovah shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.

All the fat ones on the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him; and none can keep alive his own soul.

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.

They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born, that He has done this.

A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fullness of it; the world, and those who dwell in it.

For He has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.

Yea, let none who wait on You be ashamed; let them be ashamed who sin without cause.

Lead me in Your truth, and teach me; for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day long.

For Your name's sake, O Jehovah, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

What man is he who fears Jehovah? He shall teach him in the way that he shall choose.

His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

My eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.

Let purity and uprightness keep me; for I wait on You.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

so that I may cry out with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Your wonderful works.

When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.