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"This is how things are in the homes of the wicked, and this is the place of those who don't know God."

but know that it's God who has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

"Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!

Must you pursue me as God does, never satisfied with my flesh?

so that after my skin has been thus destroyed, then even without my flesh, I will see God.

the wealth he swallows he vomits back up; God makes him disgorge it.

"This is what will fill his belly! — [God] will lay on him all his burning anger and make it rain over him, into his insides.

This is God's reward for the wicked, the heritage God decrees for him."

"Yet to God they said, ‘Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their calamity come upon them? How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,

God lays up for their children [the punishment for their] iniquity. He should lay it on [the wicked] themselves, so that they can feel it!

"Can anyone teach God knowledge? After all, he judges those who are on high.

"Can a human be of advantage to God? Can even the wisest benefit him?

"Isn't God in the heights of heaven, looking [down even] on the highest stars?

Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge?

They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can Shaddai do to us?'

"Learn to be at peace with [God]; in this way good will come [back] to you.

then Shaddai will be your delight, you will lift up your face to God;

when someone is brought down, you will say, ‘It was pride, because [God] saves the humble.'

God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.