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And tell you the secrets of wisdom!For sound wisdom has two sides.Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.

"Can you find the depths of God?Can you find the limits of the Almighty?

I am a laughingstock to my friends,The one who called on God and He answered him;The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

The tents of the destroyers are complacent,And those who provoke God are secure,Whom God brings into their power.

"But I would speak to the Almighty,And I desire to argue with God.

Will you speak what is unrighteous for God,And speak what is deceitful for Him?

Will you show partiality for Him?Will you contend for God?

Indeed, you annul reverent fearAnd cut off musing before God.

Do you hear the secret counsel of God,And cut down wisdom only unto yourself?

Are the consolations of God too small for you,Even the word spoken gently with you?

God hands me over to ruffiansAnd tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

My friends are my scoffers;My eye weeps to God.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unjust,And this is the place of him who does not know God."

Know then that God has wronged meAnd has closed His net around me.

Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,For the hand of God has smitten me.

Why do you persecute me as God does,And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Even after my skin is destroyed,Yet from my flesh I shall behold God,

He swallows up wealth,But will vomit it up;God will expel it from his belly.

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.

This is the wicked man's portion from God,Even the inheritance decreed to him by God."