You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

It is higher than the heavens – what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol – what can you know?

For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

“Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?

“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.