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Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,

Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?

For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.

I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. (16-5) I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

(16-12) God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.