² “Dominion and awe belong to God;^(B)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.^(C)
3 Can his forces be numbered?
    On whom does his light not rise?^(D)
4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?^(E)
5 If even the moon^(F) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,^(G)
6 how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(H) who is only a worm!”^(I)

² “How you have helped the powerless!^(J)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(K)
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight^(L) you have displayed!
⁴ Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^(M)

⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish,^(N)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
⁶ The realm of the dead^(O) is naked before God;
    Destruction^[a](P) lies uncovered.^(Q)
7 He spreads out the northern skies^(R) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.^(S)
8 He wraps up the waters^(T) in his clouds,^(U)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds^(V) over it.
¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters^(W)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.^(X)
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,^(Y)
    aghast at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he churned up the sea;^(Z)
    by his wisdom^(AA) he cut Rahab^(AB) to pieces.
¹³ By his breath the skies^(AC) became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.^(AD)
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper^(AE) we hear of him!^(AF)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”^(AG)

² “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,^(AI)
    the Almighty,^(AJ) who has made my life bitter,^(AK)
3 as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God^(AL) in my nostrils,
⁴ my lips will not say anything wicked,
    and my tongue will not utter lies.^(AM)
5 I will never admit you are in the right;
    till I die, I will not deny my integrity.^(AN)
6 I will maintain my innocence^(AO) and never let go of it;
    my conscience^(AP) will not reproach me as long as I live.^(AQ)

⁷ “May my enemy be like the wicked,^(AR)
    my adversary^(AS) like the unjust!
⁸ For what hope have the godless^(AT) when they are cut off,
    when God takes away their life?^(AU)
9 Does God listen to their cry
    when distress comes upon them?^(AV)
10 Will they find delight in the Almighty?^(AW)
    Will they call on God at all times?

¹¹ “I will teach you about the power of God;
    the ways^(AX) of the Almighty I will not conceal.^(AY)
12 You have all seen this yourselves.
    Why then this meaningless talk?

¹³ “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,
    the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:^(AZ)
14 However many his children,^(BA) their fate is the sword;^(BB)
    his offspring will never have enough to eat.^(BC)
15 The plague will bury those who survive him,
    and their widows will not weep for them.^(BD)
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust^(BE)
    and clothes like piles of clay,^(BF)
17 what he lays up^(BG) the righteous will wear,^(BH)
    and the innocent will divide his silver.^(BI)
18 The house^(BJ) he builds is like a moth’s cocoon,^(BK)
    like a hut^(BL) made by a watchman.
¹⁹ He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;^(BM)
    when he opens his eyes, all is gone.^(BN)
20 Terrors^(BO) overtake him like a flood;^(BP)
    a tempest snatches him away in the night.^(BQ)
21 The east wind^(BR) carries him off, and he is gone;^(BS)
    it sweeps him out of his place.^(BT)
22 It hurls itself against him without mercy^(BU)
    as he flees headlong^(BV) from its power.^(BW)
23 It claps its hands^(BX) in derision
    and hisses him out of his place.”^(BY)