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

Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

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

Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

“Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights.

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

“The dead tremble – those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

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

Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;

“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.