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Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is.Hear it, and know for yourself."

So now be willing to face me,And see if I lie to your face.

So am I apportioned months of worthlessness,And nights of trouble are appointed me.

A cloud vanishes, and it is gone,So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

So that my soul would choose suffocation,Death rather than my pains.

Have I sinned? What have I done to You,O watcher of men?Why have You set me as Your target,So that I am a burden to myself?

So are the paths of all who forget God;And the hope of the godless will perish,

"In truth I know that this is so;But how can a man be in the right before God?

If I am wicked, woe to me!And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am sated with disgrace—so see my misery!

For He knows worthless men,And He sees wickedness, so will He not carefully consider it?

For you would forget your trouble,As waters that pass by, so you would remember it.

"Be silent before me so that I may speak;Then let come on me what may.

Since his days are determined,The number of his months is with You;And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

So man lies down and does not rise.Until the heavens are no longer,He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep.

Water wears away stones;Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;So You make man's hope perish.

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,And He has put darkness on my paths.

Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves,For wrath brings the punishment of the sword,So that you may know there is judgment."

So it will be that he fills his belly,And God will send His burning anger on himAnd will rain it on him while he is eating.

You say, ‘God stores away a man's wickedness for his sons.'Let God repay him so that he may know it.

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,And an abundance of water covers you.