Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

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

Do you know when mountain goats give birth?
Have you watched the deer in labor?

They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

“Will you have faith in him that he will return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

“Have you given the horse his might?
Have you clothed his neck with quivering and a shaking mane?

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

His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

“Have you an arm like God,
And can you thunder with a voice like His?

"When you have adorned yourself with exalted majesty, clothed yourself with splendor and dignity,

dispensed the fury of your anger, made sure that you have humbled every proud person,

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.

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

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

For when thou thinkest to have hold upon him, he shall beguile thee: Every man also that seeth him, shall go back.

“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?]

The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved.

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

He leaves a path shining after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.

“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.

A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have struck all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight;
You hate all who do evil.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

{Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite.} Jehovah my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me;

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
Lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies;
Rise up for me; You have commanded judgment and vindication.

The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic and glorious and excellent is Your name in all the earth!
You have displayed Your splendor above the heavens.

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.

For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

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

Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble."

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

He crouches and bows, and the poor have fallen by his might.

You have seen it, for You have noted mischief and vexation (irritation) to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.

Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble and oppressed;
You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear to hear,

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

How long must I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart day after day?
How long will my enemy exalt himself and triumph over me?

Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

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

There they have feared a fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have placed my trust and found refuge.

O my soul , thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.