That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,

Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

Is not, GOD, in the height of the heavens? Behold, then, the head of the stars, that they are high.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circle of heaven.

Will you keep [to the] way of old that [the] people of mischief have trod,

Saying , Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

“Now yield and submit yourself to Him [agree with God and be conformed to His will] and be at peace;
In this way [you will prosper and great] good will come to you.

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

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

That I might know, what answer he would give me: and that I might understand, what he would say unto me.

He that is just shall enter disputation with him, and my judge shall deliver me forever.

On the left hand, where he does work, 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 tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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

For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

For insomuch as he is God, he maketh my heart soft: and seeing that he is Almighty, he putteth me in fear.

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

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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;

that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.

They reap the corn field that is not their own; and let the vineyard of the ungodly alone.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

The eye of the ungodly is like the adulterer, that waiteth for the darkness, and sayeth thus in himself, 'Tush, there shall no man see me,' and so he disguiseth his face.

As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."

They float on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

He evil treats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.

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

If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar
and show that my speech is worthless?

"Power and fear is with him above, that maketh peace, sitting in his highness,

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

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?

How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.

The pillars that hold up the sky tremble,
astounded at His rebuke.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils.

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty, that he dare always call upon God?

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

Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

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

whatever he stores up, the righteous will wear, and the innocent will inherit that silver!

He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that the keeper makes.

He will go to bed wealthy, but won't be doing that anymore! When he opens his eyes, it will be gone!

With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.

He bringeth food out of the earth, and that which is under, consumeth he with fire.

That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

He binds the streams from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.

How cometh a man then by wisdom? Where is the place that men find understanding?

Black corals and crystal will not be mentioned, and wisdom's price [is] more than red corals.

The Topaz that cometh out of Ethiopia may in no wise be likened unto her: yea, no manner of apparel how pleasant and fair soever it be.

For he holdeth the ends of the world and looketh upon all that is under the heaven.

He set in place ordinances for the rain; and determined the pathway for thunder that accompanies lightning.

And He saith to man: -- 'Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt like a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

{so that they dwell} [in] holes of [the] ground and [in the] rocks.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.

"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity - for that very reason, is there an outcry for help.

Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my flute into the voice of them that weep.

I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.

As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

for that [is] a shameful act, and that [is] {a criminal offense}.

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

But seeing that God will sit in judgment, what shall I do? And for so much as he will needs visit me, what answer shall I give him?

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.