Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.