If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

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

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts –

They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –

I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,

If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.

Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely righteous One,

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