If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

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

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.