God

As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.

I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.

Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.

But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.

Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.

The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.

He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.

Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?