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God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.

Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."

know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.

This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."

Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

"Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Therefore you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'