God

When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

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

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.