If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.

For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!

Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

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

He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

“Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):

Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.