Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

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

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

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

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.