"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

or I have eaten my morsel {alone}, and [the] orphan has not eaten from it

if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,

An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler.

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me.

for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.

Indeed, he has not yet appointed [a time] for man to go to God in the judgment.

for truly my words [are] not falsehood; [one who has] perfect knowledge [is] with you.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, 'You have done wrong'?

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

And {they} turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on [the] face of {the habitable world}.

So then, they do not look at the light [when it is] bright in the skies, when [the] wind has passed and has cleansed them.

"Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for [the] {thunder bolts},

Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster?

"Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,

Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.

Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.

Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

"{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.

By the ear's hearing I heard [of] you, but now my eye has seen you.

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself [the] faithful one. Yahweh hears when I call to him.

Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.

Yahweh has heard my plea; Yahweh has accepted my prayer.

God [is] a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung} it.

And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts.

He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in [the] trap he has made.

The enemies are destroyed [in] ruins forever, and you have uprooted [their] cities; their very memory has perished.

But Yahweh sits [enthroned] forever. He has established his throne for judgment.

Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion Selah

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

I will sing to Yahweh because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.

Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.

Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

[Yet] in all [the] world their line goes out, and their words to [the] end of [the] world. In them he has pitched a tent for the sun,

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

because he has not despised nor abhorred [the] affliction of [the] afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help.

They will come and tell his saving [deeds] to a people [yet] to be born, that he has done [it].

because he has founded it on [the] seas, and has established it on [the] rivers.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city.

Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance.

An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.

You are [the most] handsome of [the] sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions [with] festive oil.

Come, see the works of Yahweh, who has placed desolations on the earth.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with [the] sound of a trumpet.

The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned [the] earth, from [the] rising of [the] sun to its setting.

God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.

There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.

Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked [with satisfaction] on my enemies.

He has put forth his hands against {his friends}; he has defiled his covenant.

Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.

God has spoken in his holiness, "I will rejoice; I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth.

Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength [belongs] to God.

the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip.

Come [and] hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me.

However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me.

[The] earth has yielded its produce. God, our God, will bless us.

Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, [by] what you perform for us.

Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."

Indeed he will deliver [the] needy [who is] crying for help, and [the] afflicted [who] has no helper.

Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, [to] all [that the] enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.

But God [has been] my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion.

Has his loyal love ceased forever? Is [his] promise ended throughout generations?

Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah

So I said, "This pierces me-- the right [hand] of the Most High [has] changed."

We will not hide [them] from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.

Assyria also has joined with them. They {provide help} to the children of Lot. Selah

Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me.

All passing along [the] road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.

But Yahweh has become my [high] stronghold, and my God [has become] my rock of refuge.

Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done wonders. His right hand and his holy arm have secured his victory.

Yahweh has made known his salvation; to the eyes of the nations he has revealed his righteousness.

He has remembered his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel. All [the] ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

You rise up and take pity on Zion, because [it is] time to favor it, for [the] appointed time has come.

He has broken my strength along the way; he has cut short my days.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.

As far as east [is] from west, [so] he has removed far from us [the guilt of] our transgressions.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

where birds make [their] nest. [The] stork [has] its home in [the] fir trees.

Remember his wonders that he has done, his signs and the judgments of his mouth,

Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare [it], [those] whom he has redeemed from [the] hand of [the] enemy