4:4 Your words have supported those
who stumbled,
and you have strengthened the knees
that gave way.
6:27 Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless,
and auction off your friend.
7:14 then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,
7:18 And that you visit them every morning,
and try them every moment?
8:5 But if you will look to God,
and make your supplication to the Almighty,
9:28 I dread all my sufferings,
for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
9:31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit
and my own clothes abhor me.
10:6 that you must search out my iniquity,
and inquire about my sin,
10:8 “Your hands have shaped me and made me,
but now you destroy me completely.
10:10 Did you not pour me out like milk,
and curdle me like cheese?
10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
10:12 You gave me life and favor,
and your intervention watched over my spirit.
11:4 For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless,
and I am pure in your sight.’
11:5 But if only God would speak,
if only he would open his lips against you,
11:10 If he comes by and confines you
and convenes a court,
then who can prevent him?
13:22 Then call, and I will answer,
or I will speak, and you respond to me.
13:24 Why do you hide your face
and regard me as your enemy?
13:25 Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf
and chase after dry chaff?
14:17 My offenses would be sealed up in a bag;
you would cover over my sin.
15:4 But you even break off piety,
and hinder meditation before God.
15:5 Your sin inspires your mouth;
you choose the language of the crafty.
15:12 Why has your heart carried you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
15:13 when you turn your rage against God
and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
15:17 “I will explain to you;
listen to me,
and what I have seen, I will declare,
16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.
What miserable comforters are you all!
16:7 Surely now he has worn me out,
you have devastated my entire household.
17:3 Make then my pledge with you.
Who else will put up security for me?
19:2 “How long will you torment me
and crush me with your words?
19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
and plead my disgrace against me,
21:2 “Listen carefully to my words;
let this be the consolation you offer me.
21:3 Bear with me and I will speak,
and after I have spoken you may mock.
22:8 Although you were a powerful man, owning land,
an honored man living on it,
22:13 But you have said, ‘What does God know?
Does he judge through such deep darkness?
22:15 Will you keep to the old path
that evil men have walked –
22:25 then the Almighty himself will be your gold,
and the choicest silver for you.
26:3 How you have advised the one without wisdom,
and abundantly revealed your insight!
26:4 To whom did you utter these words?
And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
33:8 “Indeed, you have said in my hearing
(I heard the sound of the words!):
34:16 “If you have understanding, listen to this,
hear what I have to say.
35:5 Gaze at the heavens and see;
consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
37:15 Do you know how God commands them,
how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?
37:17 You, whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind,
37:18 will you, with him, spread out the clouds,
solid as a mirror of molten metal?
38:5 Who set its measurements – if you know –
or who stretched a measuring line across it?
38:12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,
or made the dawn know its place,
38:20 that you may take them to their borders
and perceive the pathways to their homes?
38:22 Have you entered the storehouse of the snow,
or seen the armory of the hail,
38:31 Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades,
or release the cords of Orion?
38:32 Can you lead out
the constellations in their seasons,
or guide the Bear with its cubs?
38:39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness,
and satisfy the appetite of the lions,
39:20 Do you make it leap like a locust?
Its proud neighing is terrifying!
41:1 (40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook,
and tie down its tongue with a rope?
41:2 Can you put a cord through its nose,
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
41:7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
42:2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted;