Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

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

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

“This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back – because of my feelings within me.

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

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

then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.

I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.

He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.