2Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for there are yet words to speak on God's behalf.

3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4For truly my words are not deceitful, and my knowledge is blameless with you.

5Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise him who is pure as milk.

6He does not preserve the life of the wicked; but gives justice to the poor.

7He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; he sets kings on the throne; yea, they are exalted for ever.

8And if they be bound in chains, then they go down through destruction to poverty.

9Then he shows them their works, and their transgression because they have exceeded their power.

10He opens also their ears to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

11If they obey and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.

12But if they do not obey, they shall perish by destruction, and they shall perish without knowledge.

13But the hypocrites in heart shall be consumed, they shall not cry for help; yet they shall cry angrily when he binds them.

14They shall die in youth, and their life is snatched by famine.

15But the meek shall be delivered through his meekness, and he opens their way in time of oppression.

16Even so he shall deliver you from the mouth of the mocker, and give you rest instead of distress; and he shall prepare a table with rich food.

17But he shall judge the wicked to the limit: judgment and justice shall take hold on them.

18He will not threaten you with a raging anger, nor will he cause you to be in need of a great ransom.

19He shall join you, that he may deliver you; you shall not be distressed by any of those who are mighty in power.

20He shall deliver you from those who drive you away in the night, and give peoples for your sake, and the nations for your life.

21Take heed, that you may not return to iniquity: because for this you were tried by poverty.

22Behold, God is mighty in power: who can teach like him?

23Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

24Remember that his works are great, and all men have praised him.

25All the peoples have seen it, and beheld it from afar.

26Behold, God is great, and we know him not, the number of his years is unsearchable.

27For if we should number the pillars of the heaven, and bind the drops of rain by themselves, which the skies do drop in their season;

28And which the clouds pour down upon men, and cause them to be exceedingly glad;

29Who can understand these things, or the spreading of the clouds out of the greatness of his tabernacle?

30Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

31For by these he judges the people; and he gives food to many.

32He covers the light with the clouds, and then it shines upon them again that they may greet it.

33He shows his possessions to his friends, and to the wicked also.