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

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

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

They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

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

By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

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

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

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

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha.' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

"See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

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

Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD 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."

The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

For you will bless the righteous. LORD, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

His ways are prosperous at all times. Your judgments are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain."

The words of the LORD are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?

As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, The LORD's angel driving them on.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I do not know about.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

And he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

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

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

But I, as a deaf man, do not hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the LORD be exalted."

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

As for me, I will call on God. The LORD will save me.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.