If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’

It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

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

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;