<p class="poetry">The gray-haired<n id="1" /> and the aged are on our side,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">men far older than your father.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">then he looked at wisdom<n id="1" /> and assessed its value;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he established<n id="3" /> it and examined it closely.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">What you know,<n id="1" /> I<n id="2" /> know also;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior<n id="3" /> to you!p>

<p class="poetry">Even now my witness<n id="1" /> is in heaven;p> <p class="poetry">my advocate<n id="2" /> is on high.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Yes,<n id="1" /> the lamp<n id="2" /> of the wicked is extinguished;p> <p class="poetry">his flame of fire<n id="3" /> does not shine.p>

<p class="poetry">Even youngsters have scorned me;p> <p class="poetry">when I get up,<n id="1" /> they scoff at me.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Why do the wicked go on living,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">grow old,<n id="2" /> even increase in power?p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Even today my complaint is still bitter;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">his<n id="2" /> hand is heavy despite<n id="3" /> my groaning.p>

<p class="poetry">The drought as well as the heat carry awayp> <p class="poetry">the melted snow;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so the grave<n id="2" /> takes away those who have sinned.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Moreover, the strength of their<n id="1" /> hands &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">what use was it to me?p> <p class="poetry">Men whose strength<n id="2" /> had perished;p>

<p class="poetry">then this<n id="1" /> also would be iniquity to be judged,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for I would have been false<n id="3" /> to God above.p>

<p class="poetry">Look, I am just like you in relation to God;p> <p class="poetry">I too have been molded<n id="1" /> from clay.p>

<p class="poetry">Then I myself will acknowledge<n id="1" /> to youp> <p class="poetry">that your own right hand can save you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry"><v id="(41:1)" /><n id="1" /> See, his expectation is wrong,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he is laid low even at the sight of it.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the day came when<n id="2" /> the sons of God<n id="3" /> came to present themselves before<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; and Satan<n id="5" /> also arrived among them.

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Therefore,<n id="1" /> I will not refrain my mouth;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;p> <p class="poetry">I will complain<n id="3" /> in the bitterness of my soul.p>

<p class="poetry">Moreover, this will become my deliverance,p> <p class="poetry">for no godless person would come before him.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Sons of senseless and nameless people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they were driven out of the land with whips.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the <sc>Lordsc>, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I also have understanding<n id="1" /> as well as you;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior to you.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who does not know such things as these?<n id="3" />p>