People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts –

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

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

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

When people are brought low and you say ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;

I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

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

They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.