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

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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

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

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

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

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

“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

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

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

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

Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely righteous One,

who says to a king, ‘Worthless man’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,’