7:1 “Does not humanity have hard service on earth?
Are not their days also
like the days of a hired man?
10:1 “I am weary of my life;
I will complain without restraint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:3 Is it good for you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands,
while you smile
on the schemes of the wicked?
14:5 Since man’s days are determined,
the number of his months is under your control;
you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
20:25 When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back,
the gleaming point out of his liver,
terrors come over him.
23:10 But he knows the pathway that I take;
if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.
24:24 They are exalted for a little while,
and then they are gone,
they are brought low like all others,
and gathered in,
and like a head of grain they are cut off.’
27:6 I will maintain my righteousness
and never let it go;
my conscience will not reproach me
for as long as I live.
33:27 That person sings to others, saying:
‘I have sinned and falsified what is right,
but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
34:29 But if God is quiet, who can condemn him?
If he hides his face, then who can see him?
Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,