God

Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.

Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.

If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not understand.

If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?

And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.

If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.

If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.

I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.

I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?