There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

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

who says to a king, ‘Worthless man’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,’

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.

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