What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.

But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?

Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.

A trap shall take [him] by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.

A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.

His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.

O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,

that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!

whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,

Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste that is in me.

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him.

Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights.

In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him.

When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?

Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that [God] distributes sorrows in his anger,

Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?

One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?

How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God.

When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me.

on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness [yields] them bread for their sons.

They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.

Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.

Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

(For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)

For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

[Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,