By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

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

“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

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

But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

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

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?