When they crouch in their dens, and abide in their lairs to lie in wait?

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their offspring.

Will you believe him, that he will bring home your grain, and gather it into your barn?

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes out to meet the armed men.

He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; neither turns he back from the sword.

He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither does he halt at the sound of the trumpet.

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

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.

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

Behold, the hope of subduing him is in vain: shall one not be cast down even at the sight of him?

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

Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot or caldron.

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

He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Darts are counted as straw: he laughs at the threat of a javelin.

He leaves a path shining after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.

Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

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.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they consoled him, and comforted him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

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

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears.

My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)

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

If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

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

Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

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

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

The LORD is King forever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

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

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

[A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.

Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and vanquished them.

Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, 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 that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

The foreigners shall fade away, and be frightened out of their fortresses.

It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.

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,

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

Its going forth is from the end of the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;

He asked life of you, and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my body.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.

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.

A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

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

What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

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

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

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

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

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

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

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Sing unto the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

[A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.] I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.