Job

 2 “Have patience with me a little while, and I shall declare to you

That there are yet words [to say] for God.*

 3 I shall carry my knowledge from far off,

And to my Fashioner* I shall ascribe righteousness.+

 4 For my words are for a fact no falsehood;

The One perfect in knowledge+ is with you.

 5 Look! God* is mighty+ and will not reject;

[He is] mighty in power of heart;*

 6 He will not preserve anyone wicked alive,+

But the judgment of the afflicted ones he will give.+

 7 He will not take away his eyes from anyone righteous;+

Even kings on the throne+—

He will also seat them forever, and they will be exalted.

 8 And if they are bound in fetters,+

They are captured with ropes of affliction.

 9 Then he will tell them about the way they act

And their transgressions, because they take a superior air.

10 And he will uncover their ear to exhortation,+

And he will say that they should turn back from what is hurtful.+

11 If they obey and serve,

They will finish their days in what is good

And their years in pleasantness.+

12 But if they do not obey, they will pass away+ even by a missile,+

And they will expire without knowledge.

13 And those apostate in heart will themselves lay up anger.+

They should not cry for help because he has bound them.

14 Their soul will die in youth itself,+

And their life among male temple prostitutes.+

15 He will rescue the afflicted one in his affliction,

And he will uncover their ear in the oppression.

16 And he will also certainly allure you from the mouth of distress!+

Broader space,+ not constraint, will be in its place,

And the consolation of your table will be full of fatness.+

17 With the judicial sentence upon the wicked one+ you will certainly be filled;

Judicial sentence and justice will themselves take hold.

18 For [take care] that rage+ does not allure you into [spiteful] handclapping,

And let not a large ransom+ itself lead you astray.

19 Will your cry for help take effect?+ No, nor in distress

Even all [your] powerful efforts.+

20 Do not pant for the night,*

For peoples to retreat [from] where they are.

21 Be on your guard that you do not turn to what is hurtful,+

For this you have chosen rather than affliction.+

22 Look! God* himself acts exaltedly with his power;

Who is an instructor like him?

23 Who has called his way to account against him,+

And who has said, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?+

24 Remember that you should magnify his activity+

Of which men have sung.+

25 All mankind* themselves have gazed upon it;

Mortal man himself keeps looking from far off.+

26 Behold! God is more exalted than we can know;+

In number his years are beyond searching.+

27 For he draws up the drops of water;+

They filter as rain for his mist,

28 So that the clouds trickle,+

They drip upon mankind abundantly.

29 Indeed, who can understand the cloud layers,

The crashings from his booth?+

30 Look! He has spread out over it his light,+

And the roots of the sea he has covered.

31 For by them he pleads the cause of peoples;+

He gives food in abundance.+

32 In his hands he has covered over the lightning,*

And he lays a command upon it against an assailant.+

33 His booming tells about him,+

The livestock also concerning the one coming up.