For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash.

O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice.

Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.

Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

But O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,

and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.

O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.

Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.

[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me.

For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

(this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

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

For I know not to give flattering titles, [else] my maker would soon take me away.

because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways,

Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

He makes a path to shine after him. [A man] would think the deep to be hoary.