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Within the walls they produce oil;They tread wine presses but thirst.

But He drags off the mighty by His power;He rises, but no one believes in his life.

Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;And how only with a whisper of a word do we hear of Him!But His mighty thunder, who can understand?"

He may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it,And the innocent will divide the silver.

He lies down rich, but never again;He opens his eyes, and it is no longer.

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

"But now those younger than I laugh at me,Whose fathers I rejected even to put with the dogs of my flock.

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;I stand up, and You carefully consider how to be against me.

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

(But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,And from the womb of my mother I guided her),

But I have not given over my mouth to sinBy asking for his life in a curse—

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned; against Job his anger burned because he was proving himself righteous before God.

But it is a spirit in man,And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

He will sing to men and say,‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,But He has not done what is due to me.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,But God has removed my justice;

But he travels in company with the workers of iniquity,And walks with wicked men?

"But if you have understanding, hear this;Give ear to the sound of my speech.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,Who gives songs of praise in the night,

There they cry out, but He does not answerBecause of the pride of evil men.

Behold, God is mighty but does not reject;He is mighty in the power of His heart.