Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

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

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.

Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

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

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

The Lord God of Israel deserves praise in the future and forevermore! We agree! We agree!

During the evening, morning, and noontime I will lament and moan, and he will hear me.

Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, and understood the destiny of the wicked.

Do not disregard what your enemies say, or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you.

when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.