2: Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3: I will fetch my knowledge from far, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4: For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5: Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6: He perserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
7: He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
8: And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;
9: Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10: He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11: If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12: But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13: But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.
14: They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15: He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
16: Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no strictness; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.
17: But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
18: Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
19: Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20: Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21: Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.
22: Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
23: Who has commanded with authority him his way? or who can say, You have wrought iniquity?
24: Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
25: Every man may see it; man may behold it far off.
26: Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27: For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29: Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30: Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
31: For by them judges he the people; he gives food in abundance.
32: With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.
33: The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.