<p class="poetry">Who<n id="1" /> will contend with me?p> <p class="poetry">If anyone can, I will be silent and die.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Make then my pledge<n id="1" /> with you.p> <p class="poetry">Who else will put up security for me?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O that I knew<n id="1" /> where I might find him,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that I could come<n id="3" /> to his place of residence!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me a liarp> <p class="poetry">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Can his armies be numbered?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">On whom does his light<n id="2" /> not rise?p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;O that I could be<n id="1" /> as<n id="2" /> I wasp> <p class="poetry">in the months now gone,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">in the days<n id="4" /> when God watched<n id="5" /> over me,p>

<p class="poetry">Who entrusted<n id="1" /> to him the earth?p> <p class="poetry">And who put him over<n id="2" /> the whole world?p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, God is exalted in his power;p> <p class="poetry">who is a teacher<n id="1" /> like him?p>

<p class="poetry">Who has prescribed his ways for him?p> <p class="poetry">Or said to him, &#8216;You have done what is wicked&#8217;?p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Who is this<n id="1" /> who darkens counsel<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">with words without knowledge?p>

<p class="poetry">Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,p> <p class="poetry">and a path for the rumble of thunder,p>

<p class="poetry">Does the rain have a father,p> <p class="poetry">or who has fathered the drops of the dew?p>

<p class="poetry">Who can open the doors of its mouth?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Its teeth all around are fearsome.p>

<p class="poetry">Call to mind now:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Who,<n id="2" /> being innocent, ever perished?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">And where were upright people<n id="4" /> ever destroyed?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">If a land<n id="1" /> has been givenp> <p class="poetry">into the hand of a wicked man,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he covers<n id="3" /> the faces of its judges;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">if it is not he, then who is it?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Which of all these<n id="1" /> does not knowp> <p class="poetry">that the hand of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> has done<n id="3" /> this,p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;O that<n id="1" /> you would hide me in Sheol,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and conceal me till your anger has passed!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">O that you would set me a time<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and then remember me!<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">if<n id="1" /> the members of my household<n id="2" /> have never said,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;If only there were<n id="4" /> someonep> <p class="poetry">who has not been satisfied from Job&#8217;s<n id="5" /> meat!&#8217; &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">On what<n id="1" /> were its bases<n id="2" /> set,p> <p class="poetry">or who laid its cornerstone &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Who prepares prey for the raven,p> <p class="poetry">when its young cry out to Godp> <p class="poetry">and wander about<n id="1" /> for lack of food?p>