God

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said--`My righteousness is more than God's?'

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

And none said, `Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.

For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place--no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him--a teacher?

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'

Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.