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But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride'; but he saves the lowly.

"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;

on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

"But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

"But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.