Job 7:12

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths;

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.