<p class="poetry">Why do you pursue me like God does?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will you never be satiated with my flesh?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Nothing is left for him to devour;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that is why his prosperity does not last.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Is my<n id="1" /> complaint against a man?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">If so,<n id="3" /> why should I not be impatient?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">So they say to God, &#8216;Turn away from us!p> <p class="poetry">We do not want to<n id="1" /> know your ways.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But their prosperity is not their own doing.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The counsel of the wicked is far from me!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Have you never questioned those who travel the roads?p> <p class="poetry">Do you not recognize their accounts<n id="1" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">You gave the weary<n id="1" /> no water to drinkp> <p class="poetry">and from the hungry you withheld food.p>

<p class="poetry">why it is so dark you cannot see,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and why a flood<n id="2" /> of water covers you.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Surely our enemies<n id="1" /> are destroyed,p> <p class="poetry">and fire consumes their wealth.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">because of the thick darknessp> <p class="poetry">that covered my face.<n id="1" />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;How you have helped<n id="1" /> the powerless!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">How you have saved the person who has no strength!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will maintain my righteousnessp> <p class="poetry">and never let it go;p> <p class="poetry">my conscience<n id="1" /> will not reproach mep> <p class="poetry">for as long as I live.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">a hidden path<n id="1" /> no bird of prey knows &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">no falcon&#8217;s<n id="2" /> eye has spotted it.p>

<p class="poetry">Mankind does not know its place;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it cannot be found in the land of the living.p>

<p class="poetry">Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it,p> <p class="poetry">nor can its price be weighed out in silver.p>

<p class="poetry">It cannot be measured out for purchase<n id="1" /> with the gold of Ophir,p> <p class="poetry">with precious onyx<n id="2" /> or sapphires.p>

<p class="poetry">Neither gold nor crystal<n id="1" /> can be compared with it,p> <p class="poetry">nor can a vase<n id="2" /> of gold match its worth.p>

<p class="poetry">Of coral and jasper no mention will be made;p> <p class="poetry">the price<n id="1" /> of wisdom is more than pearls.<n id="2" />p>