6. Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
7. What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
8. Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
9. For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
10. Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11. For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
12. Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13. Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?
14. If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15. All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
16. If now thou hast understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.
17. Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?-
18. Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile, Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;
19. That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
20. In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
21. For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.
22. There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23. For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
24. He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.
25. Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
26. He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;