Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

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

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, ‘You have done what is wicked’?

“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

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

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

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?

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –

On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone –

Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?