The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

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

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

But now they that are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show you my opinion.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Men therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them.

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his male organs are wrapped together.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible around.

His scales are his pride, shut together as with a close seal.

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

When he raiseth himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.

Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they multiplied that trouble me? many are they that rise up against me.

Many there are who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are agitated.

When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thy eyes behold the things that are equal.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

From men who are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are raised, and stand upright.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

All they that are fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

My eyes are ever towards the LORD; for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

Consider my enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

The LORD is nigh to them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, and to do good.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of upright deportment.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the earth; and they that are cursed by him shall be cut off.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are offensive, and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

For my loins are filled with a lothsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Many, O LORD, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Deep calleth to deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.