<p class="poetry">Even if he slays me, I will hope in him;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will surely<n id="2" /> defend<n id="3" /> my ways to his face!p>

<p class="poetry">His troops<n id="1" /> advance together;p> <p class="poetry">they throw up<n id="2" /> a siege ramp against me,p> <p class="poetry">and they camp around my tent.p>

<p class="poetry">No one denounces his conduct to his face;p> <p class="poetry">no one repays him for what<n id="1" /> he has done.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Is it of any special benefit<n id="1" /> to the Almightyp> <p class="poetry">that you should be righteous,p> <p class="poetry">or is it any gain to himp> <p class="poetry">that you make your ways blameless?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">There are those<n id="1" /> who rebel against the light;p> <p class="poetry">they do not know its waysp> <p class="poetry">and they do not stay on its paths.p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">&#8220;You say,<n id="2" /> &#8216;He is foam<n id="3" /> on the face of the waters;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">their portion of the land is cursedp> <p class="poetry">so that no one goes to their vineyard.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">I chose<n id="1" /> the way for them<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and sat as their chief;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I lived like a king among his troops;p> <p class="poetry">I was like one who comforts mourners.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">If my footsteps have strayed from the way,p> <p class="poetry">if my heart has gone after my eyes,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or if anything<n id="2" /> has defiled my hands,p>

<p class="poetry">because they have turned away from following him,p> <p class="poetry">and have not understood<n id="1" /> any of his ways,p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;In what direction<n id="1" /> does light reside,p> <p class="poetry">and darkness, where is its place,p>

<p class="poetry">In what direction is lightning<n id="1" /> dispersed,p> <p class="poetry">or the east winds scattered over the earth?p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">How faint is the whisper<n id="2" /> we hear of him!p> <p class="poetry">But who can understand the thunder of his power?&#8221;p>