On what are its bases sunk, or who cast its cornerstone,

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

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.

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

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

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

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their practices, give them according to the work of their hands; give them what they deserve.

What profit is in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?

O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am.

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.

But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you, to declare My Precepts, and to take up My covenant in your mouth?

In God I will praise His Word; in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid of what man can do to me.

Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul.

They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away.

I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; for He will speak peace to His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

And He gave them what they asked, but sent leanness into their soul.

What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back,

What shall I give to Jehovah for all His benefits toward me?

Jehovah is for me, I will not fear; what can man do to me?

BETH: With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.

What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, O false tongue?

O Jehovah, what is man that You take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that You esteem him?

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and what I give is better than choice silver.

What the wicked fears shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing; but the mouth of the wicked what is contrary.

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you;

Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

Do not boast yourself of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Who has gone up to Heaven and has come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in His garments? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name? Surely you know.

What, my son? And what, the son of my womb? And what, the son of my vows?

What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that lacking cannot be numbered.

I said of laughter, It is madness; and of mirth, What does it do?

I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king, when they have already done it?

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pull up what is planted;

What profit does he have who works in that in which he labors?

Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit is it to its owners, except to see it with their eyes?

And this also is a sore evil, that in all, as he came, so shall he go; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?

For what has the wise more than the fool? What gain has the poor who knows how to walk before the living?

For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better?

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Because the word of a king is that which has power; and who may say to him, What are you doing?

For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Give a share to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be on the earth.

As you do not know what is the way of the spirit, as how the bones grow in the pregnant woman's womb; even so you do not know the works of God who makes all.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know what shall be blessed, either this or that, or whether they both shall be fruitful in the same way.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my Beloved, what do you tell Him? That I am sick with love.

What is your Beloved more than another beloved, most beautiful among women? What is your Beloved more than another beloved, that you adjure us so?

Return, return, O Shulamite! Return, return, that we may look on you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the dance of two camps.

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostril; for in what is he to be esteemed?

What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.

What more could have been done to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

And what will you do in the day of judgment and in destruction, of ruin when it comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wave those who lift itself up! As if a staff could raise what is not wood!

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.

Where are they? Where are your wise men? And let them tell you now, and let them know what Jehovah of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

For so Jehovah has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.

The burden against Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

The burden against the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have gone up to the housetops?

What is to you here? And who is here to you, that you have carved out a tomb for yourself here, as one who cuts himself out a tomb on high, who cuts out a home for himself in a rock?

You who are far off, hear what I have done; and you near ones, know My might.

And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, So says the great king, the king of Assyria, What hope is this in which you trust?

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?

What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And where did they come from to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, from Babylon.

Then he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house they have seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see.

The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the beauty of it is as the flower of the field.

Who has directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and what man taught Him counsel?

To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

Let them bring them out, and tell us what shall happen; let them reveal the former things, what they are, that we may look on them and know the final end of them; or declare to us things to come.

Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands?

Woe to him who says to his father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over?

You are exhausted by your many plans; now let the astrologers stand up and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons.

Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.

so He sprinkles from many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at Him; for they will see that which was not told to them; yea, what they had not heard, nor understood.

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do.

If you turn your foot because of the Sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of Jehovah, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

And the Word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its face is from the face of the north.

So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crossing its ways;

And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Though you dress with crimson, though you put on ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes large with paint, you shall make yourself beautiful in vain; your lovers will despise you; they will seek your life.

Lo, I will bring a nation on you from afar, O house of Israel, says Jehovah. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor understand what they say.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?