I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man.

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

“Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God’s behalf.

He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

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

On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” And Satan answered the Lord, “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”