<p class="poetry">Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he<n id="2" /> is mighty, and firm<n id="3" /> in his intent.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he does great things beyond our understanding.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they go off, and do not return to them.p>

<p class="poetry">For God deprived her of wisdom,p> <p class="poetry">and did not impart understanding to her.p>

<p class="poetry">They lock tightly together, one to the next;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they cling together and cannot be separated.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I know that you can do all things;p> <p class="poetry">no purpose of yours can be thwarted;p>

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">It stands still,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but I cannot recognize<n id="2" /> its appearance;p> <p class="poetry">an image is before my eyes,p> <p class="poetry">and I hear a murmuring voice:<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For we were born yesterday<n id="1" /> and do not have knowledge,p> <p class="poetry">since our days on earth are but a shadow.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Surely, God does not reject a blameless man,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor does he grasp the hand<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">of the evildoers.p>

<p class="poetry">to the land of utter darkness,p> <p class="poetry">like the deepest darkness,p> <p class="poetry">and the deepest shadow and disorder,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">where even the light<n id="2" /> is like darkness.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he<n id="1" /> knows deceitful<n id="2" /> men;p> <p class="poetry">when he sees evil, will he not<n id="3" /> consider it?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> then you will lift up your facep> <p class="poetry">without<n id="2" /> blemish;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you will be securely established<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and will not fear.p>

<p class="poetry">Since man&#8217;s days<n id="1" /> are determined,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the number of his months is under your control;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you have set his limit<n id="4" /> and he cannot pass it.p>

<p class="poetry">his archers<n id="1" /> surround me.p> <p class="poetry">Without pity<n id="2" /> he pierces<n id="3" /> my kidneysp> <p class="poetry">and pours out my gall<n id="4" /> on the ground.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But turn, all of you,<n id="1" /> and come<n id="2" /> now!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will not find a wise man among you.p>

<p class="poetry">His memory perishes from the earth,p> <p class="poetry">he has no name in the land.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He has neither children nor descendants<n id="1" /> among his people,p> <p class="poetry">no survivor in those places he once stayed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">whom I will see for myself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and whom my own eyes will behold,p> <p class="poetry">and not another.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My heart<n id="3" /> grows faint within me.<n id="4" />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>