Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

When he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts –

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, ‘You have done what is wicked’?

Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.