He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?

“The dead tremble – those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

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

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

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

Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart.”

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.

My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit –