He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

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

Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

“Has anyone said to God, ‘I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.

that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

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

Offer the prescribed sacrifices and trust in the Lord!

To you they cried out, and they were saved; in you they trusted and they were not disappointed.