<p class="poetry">The plowers plowed my back;p> <p class="poetry">they made their furrows long.p>

<p class="poetry">If only you would keep completely silent!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For you, that would be wisdom.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not those who devise<n id="1" /> evil go astray?p> <p class="poetry">But those who plan good exhibit<n id="2" /> faithful covenant love.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?p>

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will fight for you, and you can be still.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

<p class="poetry">Will your idle talk<n id="1" /> reduce people to silence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and will no one rebuke<n id="3" /> you when you mock?<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">By David.p> <p class="poetry">To you, O <sc>Lordsc>, I cry out!p> <p class="poetry">My protector,<n id="2" /> do not ignore me!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">If you do not respond to me,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I will join<n id="5" /> those who are descending into the grave.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even as I have seen,<n id="1" /> those who plow<n id="2" /> iniquity<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and those who sow trouble reap the same.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Teach<n id="1" /> me and I, for my part,<n id="2" /> will be silent;p> <p class="poetry">explain to me<n id="3" /> how I have been mistaken.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Refrain from talking<n id="1" /> with me so that<n id="2" /> I may speak;p> <p class="poetry">then let come to me<n id="3" /> what may.<n id="4" />p>

<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">Pay attention, Job &#8211; listen to me;p> <p class="poetry">be silent, and I will speak.p>

<p class="poetry">If not, you listen to me;p> <p class="poetry">be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">When I refused to confess my sin,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my whole body wasted away,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">while I groaned in pain all day long.p>

<p class="poetry">But you take notice,<n id="1" /> <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">O Lord, do not remain far away from me!p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director, a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">O God whom I praise, do not ignore me!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">he plots evil with perverse thoughts<n id="1" /> in his heart,p> <p class="poetry">he spreads contention<n id="2" /> at all times.p>

<p class="poetry">a heart that devises wicked plans,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">feet that are swift to run<n id="2" /> to evil,p>

<p class="poetry">The one who denounces<n id="1" /> his neighbor lacks wisdom,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one who has discernment<n id="3" /> keeps silent.<n id="4" />p>