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

Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.

At the height of his success distress will come to him;
the full weight of misery will crush him.

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry.

This is what the wicked person inherits from God; it is the inheritance that God appoints for him."

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

“Look at me and be astonished and appalled;
And put your hand over your mouth.

And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.

“Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

His sides are filled out with fat,
And the marrow of his bones is moist,

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

“For the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity;
They will be led forth at the day of fury.

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."

Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Is it for thy fear of him that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?

Your wickedness is great, isn't it? There's no limit to your iniquity, is there?

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

or [it is so] dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!

And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Thick clouds cover him so he can't see as he walks back and forth at heaven's horizon.

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

“Surely our opponents are destroyed,
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Accept what he has to teach you, and treasure his words in your heart.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

When they are humiliated, {you say}, '[It is] pride,' for he saves {the humble}.

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

"My saying is yet this day in bitterness, and my hand heavy among my groanings.

I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments;

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth it in me.

"If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

When He is at work to the north, I cannot see Him;
when He turns south, I cannot find Him.

“But He knows the way that I take [and He pays attention to it].
When He has tried me, I will come forth as [refined] gold [pure and luminous].

My foot doth keep his path; his highway have I holden, and will not go out of it.

I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

For he will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

“It is God who has made my heart faint,
And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

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

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Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

The wicked displace boundary markers.
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.

They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death.

As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners.

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 entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

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

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

“To whom have you uttered [these] words?
And whose spirit [inspired what] came forth from you?

Those who are deceased tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants of it.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters
At the boundary between light and darkness.

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

Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?