Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?

Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

You will call and I – I will answer you; you will long for the creature you have made.

“Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice –

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

“If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security!’

then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’

Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?