You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

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

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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

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

“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

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

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

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

“Yes, God is great – beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

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

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

For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?

But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted and humiliated.

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living?

May lying lips be silenced – lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha! We have what we wanted!” Do not let them say, “We have devoured him!”