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Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.

Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.

Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.