For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

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

“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

That day – let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

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