Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

"Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

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

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

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

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.

Mine own wife may not abide my breath, I was fain to speak fair for the children of mine own body.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me?

Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.

Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them.

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

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

They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

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

I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me.

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 behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

“They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own],
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!

How have you advised those not wise, or fully declared wise plans?

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Verily, in the Almighty, he will not find delight, nor call on GOD continually!

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its price.

It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.