Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts –

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

“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?

“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

a hidden path no bird of prey knows – no falcon’s eye has spotted it.

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

It cannot be measured out for purchase with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.

Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth.

Of coral and jasper no mention will be made; the price of wisdom is more than pearls.