"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

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

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

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

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

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

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

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

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me. For the Chief Musician. By David.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

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

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

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it. A Psalm by David.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

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

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.