But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

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

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

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

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

It cannot be measured out for purchase with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.

Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth.