[Are] not my days few? Let him leave [me] alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.

He is higher than heaven; what wilt thou do? Deeper than hell; how wilt thou then know him?

If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider.

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Then, indeed, you could lift up your face [to Him] without moral defect,
And you would be firmly established and secure and not fear.

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.

With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

“Will not His majesty terrify you,
And will not the dread of Him fall upon you?

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

But you even undermine the fear of God
and hinder meditation before Him.

“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]
Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

For his own feet lead him into a net,
and he strays into its mesh.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

His strength is depleted;
disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

"{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

[There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

Nothing is left for him to consume;
therefore, his prosperity will not last.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon 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.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

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.

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

“As for me, is my complaint to man or about him?
And why should I not be impatient and my spirit troubled?

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

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

Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

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

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

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?

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein:

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

The righteous will see this and rejoice; the innocent will insult him, saying,

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

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

He will deliver even him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: