He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

“Yes, God is great – beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature – let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”