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But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

…look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

…as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

…as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

…as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

…though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

…can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?

…can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?

…when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

As for the deeds of men—by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah