God

when someone is brought down, you will say, 'It was pride, because [God] saves the humble.'

I wish I knew where I could find him; then I would go to where he is.

I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments

I would know his answering words and grasp what he would tell me.

Would he browbeat me with his great power? No, he would pay attention to me.

There an upright person could reason with him; thus I might be forever acquitted by my judge.

"If I head east, he isn't there; if I head west, I don't detect him,

if I turn north, I don't spot him; in the south he is veiled, and I still don't see him.

Yet he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

My feet have stayed in his footsteps; I keep to his way without turning aside.

I don't withdraw from his lips' command; I treasure his words more than my daily food.

"But he has no equal, so who can change him? What he desires, he does.

He will accomplish what is decreed for me, and he has many plans like this

This is why I am terrified of him; the more I think about it, the more afraid I am -

God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.

Yet I am not cut off by the darkness; he has protected me from the deepest gloom.

"Why are times not kept by Shaddai? Why do those who know him not see his days?

Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!

However, even if God lets them rest in safety, his eyes are on their ways.

"Dominion and fear belong to him; he makes peace in his high places.

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not shine?

How then can humans be righteous with God? How can those born of women be clean?

Why, before him even the moon lacks brightness, and the stars themselves are not pure.

Sh'ol is naked before him; Abaddon lies uncovered.

He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet no cloud is torn apart by it.