For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.

I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;

We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

For you go before him with the blessings of good things: you put a crown of fair gold on his head.

Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.

Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.