Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

as I was in the days of my harvest, when the secret of God was on my tent;

And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

They are driven forth from the midst; they cried against them as a thief.

As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin.

for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her;

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

Behold, I am toward God even as you are; I also am formed out of the clay.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?

so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Whether as a whip, or for His land, or for mercy, He finds it.

Now gird up your loins like a man; for I will ask of you, and you teach Me.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?

Who has sent out the wild ass free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass,

She treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?

None is so fierce as to dare to stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?

Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds.

His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a riding millstone.

He counts iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

Darts are counted as straw; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.

Hear, I beseech You, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will cause me to know.

And it happened after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

And now take to yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of Me what is right, like My servant Job.

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded them. Jehovah also accepted the face of Job.

And in all the land there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

Ask of Me, and I shall give the nations for Your inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the earth for Your possession.

For You; O Jehovah, will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield.

His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

As to the saints in the earth, they are the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings,

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image.

As for God, His way is perfect; the Word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield to all those who trust in Him.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets.

As soon as they hear of Me, they shall obey Me; the sons of strangers shall bow down to Me.

and he comes forth as a bridegroom from his canopy; he rejoices as a strong man to run a race,

You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your presence; Jehovah will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Jehovah sits on the flood; yea, Jehovah sits as King forever.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

Let Your mercy, O Jehovah, be on us, according as we hope in You.

Let them be as chaff before the wind; and let the Angel of Jehovah drive them away.

As a friend, as to my brother, I walked; as one who mourns for a mother, I was bowed down, mourning.

For they shall soon wither like the grass; and fade as the green herb.

My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

And I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a pilgrim, as all my fathers were.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame, those who say to me, Aha, aha!

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies shame me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?

Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

as we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Jehovah of Hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.

Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips,

Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.

For You have proved us, O God; You have tested us, as silver is refined.

As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in a pleasing time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

They shall fear You as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

His name shall endure forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.

How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,

He is known as one bringing axes on high, on the thick trees.

Your way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a God as our God?

He split the rocks in the wilderness, and let them drink, as from the great depths.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars.

Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon;

who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth.

As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm.

Also I have set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.

His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me.

For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your wrath.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they shall be destroyed forever;

But You shall lift up my horn as the wild ox; and I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

harden not your heart, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness;

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is His mercy toward those who fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him.

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

covering Yourself with light as with a robe; and stretching out the heavens like a curtain;

He lays the beams of His upper rooms in the waters. He sets the clouds as His chariots; He walks on the wings of the wind;

You covered the deep as with a robe; the waters stand above the mountains.

I will sing to Jehovah as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

They did not destroy the nations as Jehovah commanded them;

And He guided them by the right way, so as to go to a city to live in.

As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as the robe which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is always clothed.

As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.