It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.
“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,
to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,
“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?
forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.
“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
“Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?
Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?
His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.
On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.
All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
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