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

Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely righteous One,

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.

If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.

each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them.

With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.

But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

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

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?