God

Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?

Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,

that you have to seek my guilt and search out my sin?

You know that I won't be condemned, yet no one can rescue me from your power.

Your own hands shaped me, they made me; so why do you turn and destroy me?

Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?

Didn't you pour me out like milk, then let me thicken like cheese?

You granted me life and grace; your careful attention preserved my spirit.

"'Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know what your secret purpose was -

to watch until I would sin and then not absolve me of my guilt.

If I am wicked, woe to me! -but if righteous, I still don't dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.

You rise up to hunt me like a lion, and you keep treating me in such peculiar ways.

You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.

"'Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.

"You claim that your teaching is pure; you tell [God], 'I am clean in your sight.'

I wish that God would speak, would open his mouth to answer you,

would tell you the secrets of wisdom, which is worth twice as much as common sense. Understand that God is demanding of you less than your guilt deserves.

"Can you penetrate God's depths? Can you find out Shaddai's limits?

If he passes through, puts in prison and assembles [for judgment], who can prevent him?

For he knows when people are worthless; so if he sees iniquity, won't he look into it?

If you will set your heart right, if you will spread out your hands toward him,

"Anyone who calls on God, and he answers him, becomes a laughingstock to his friends -they make fun of an innocent, blameless man.

The tents of robbers prosper, [the homes of] those who anger God are secure, those who carry their gods in their hands.

every one of them knows that the hand of ADONAI has done this!

"With God are wisdom and power; he has [good] counsel and understanding.