At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.

"For thou hast numbered all my goings, yet be not thou too extreme upon my sins.

“My transgression is sealed up in a bag,
And You cover my wickedness [from Your view].

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,
And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

"{What is worse}, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation {before} God.

Your iniquity teaches you what to say,
and you choose the language of the crafty.

It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? With thee is a lying word.

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

“A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears;
While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

He rushes headlong at Him
with his thick, studded shields.

Though his face is covered with fat
and his waistline bulges with it,

And he will dwell in cities out off, the houses shall not be inhabited by them, which were ready for heaps.

He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray,
for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

“They have gaped at me with their mouths,
With contempt they have struck me on the cheek;
They massed themselves together [and conspired] against me.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

“He attacks me, making wound after wound;
He runs at me like a warrior.

“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no [resting] place for my cry [where it will cease being heard].

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend.

yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

Surely mockers surround me
and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

Appoint it, I pray thee - be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?

He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me
and caught me in His net.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

I will see Him myself;
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs within me.

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."

“Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me answer,
Because of the uneasiness that is within me.

“I have heard the reproof which insults me,
But the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

"Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:

His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

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

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.