His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

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

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit –

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you.

“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

“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.

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

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

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal.

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,