Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren.

They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

"How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? How oft cometh their destruction upon them? Oh what sorrow shall God give them for their part in his wrath!

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware.

Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?

His sides were filled with fat, and the marrow of his bones will, be moistened.

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Is it a pleasure to the Almighty, that thou shouldst be righteous? or any profit, that thou shouldst be blameless in thy ways?

Thou didst send away widows empty, and the arms of the orphans will be broken.

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

“Will you keep to the ancient path
That wicked men walked [in the time of Noah],

who were snatched away {before their time}, whose foundation was washed away [by] a current?

The just shall see and shall be glad: and the innocent shall deride at them.

"Our enemies are sure to be destroyed, and fire will burn up what's left of their riches."

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and {you will expect that God will be good to you}.

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments

I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

Would He prosecute me forcefully?
No, He will certainly pay attention to me.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

“Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence;
When I consider, I am terrified of Him.

Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness,
by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.

Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.

Drenched by mountain rains,
they huddle against the rocks, shelterless.

They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress.

“From the city men groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not pay attention to folly.

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Can His troops be numbered?
Does His light not shine on everyone?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

For what shall be the hope of the impious, though he graspeth with greed, when GOD shall draw forth his soul?

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon
or a booth set up by a watchman.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

It shall be clapped upon him with their hands, and it shall be hissed upon him from his place.

"Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place {for gold to be refined}.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,
[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;
They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

where stones are sapphire and gold dust can be found,

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

No man can know its value,
since it cannot be found in the land of the living.

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.

Destruction and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.'