6:3 But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea,
that is why my words have been wild.
6:8 “Oh that my request would be realized,
and that God would grant me what I long for!
6:13 Is not my power to help myself nothing,
and has not every resource been driven from me?
6:24 “Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent;
explain to me how I have been mistaken.
7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
and they come to an end without hope.
7:16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever;
leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
7:19 Will you never look away from me,
will you not let me alone
long enough to swallow my spittle?
9:15 Although I am innocent,
I could not answer him;
I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
9:16 If I summoned him, and he answered me,
I would not believe
that he would be listening to my voice –
9:20 Although I am innocent,
my mouth would condemn me;
although I am blameless,
it would declare me perverse.
10:14 If I sinned, then you would watch me
and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
10:20 Are not my days few?
Cease, then, and leave me alone,
that I may find a little comfort,
13:3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to argue my case with God.
13:26 For you write down bitter things against me
and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
16:10 People have opened their mouths against me,
they have struck my cheek in scorn;
they unite together against me.
19:10 He tears me down on every side until I perish;
he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.
19:12 His troops advance together;
they throw up a siege ramp against me,
and they camp around my tent.
19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
19:25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that as the last
he will stand upon the earth.
23:7 There an upright person
could present his case before him,
and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
23:11 My feet have followed his steps closely;
I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.
23:17 Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness,
because of the thick darkness
that covered my face.
24:25 “If this is not so, who can prove me a liar
and reduce my words to nothing?”
27:2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,
the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –
29:3 when he caused his lamp
to shine upon my head,
and by his light
I walked through darkness;
29:6 when my steps were bathed with butter
and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
29:14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me,
my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;
31:10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man,
and may other men have sexual relations with her.
31:12 For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction,
and it would uproot all my harvest.
31:17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself,
and did not share any of it with orphans –
31:30 I have not even permitted my mouth to sin
by asking for his life through a curse –
31:32 But no stranger had to spend the night outside,
for I opened my doors to the traveler –
31:36 Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder,
I would bind it on me like a crown;
32:20 I will speak, so that I may find relief;
I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
36:4 For in truth, my words are not false;
it is one complete in knowledge
who is with you.
40:8 Would you indeed annul my justice?
Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye has seen you.