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² "Bear with me a little, and I will show you,
    for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
³ I will bring my knowledge from far away,
    and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
⁴ For truly my words are not false;
    one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

⁵ "Surely God is mighty and does not despise any;
    he is mighty in strength of understanding.
⁶ He does not keep the wicked alive,
    but gives the afflicted their right.
⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
    but with kings on the throne
    he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
⁸ And if they are bound in fetters
    and caught in the cords of affliction,
⁹ then he declares to them their work
    and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
¹⁰ He opens their ears to instruction,
    and commands that they return from iniquity.
¹¹ If they listen, and serve him,
    they complete their days in prosperity,
    and their years in pleasantness.
¹² But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword,
    and die without knowledge.

¹³ "The godless in heart cherish anger;
    they do not cry for help when he binds them.
¹⁴ They die in their youth,
    and their life ends in shame.^[a]
15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,
    and opens their ear by adversity.
¹⁶ He also allured you out of distress
    into a broad place where there was no constraint,
    and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

¹⁷ "But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked;
    judgment and justice seize you.
¹⁸ Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing,
    and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
¹⁹ Will your cry avail to keep you from distress,
    or will all the force of your strength?
²⁰ Do not long for the night,
    when peoples are cut off in their place.
²¹ Beware! Do not turn to iniquity;
    because of that you have been tried by affliction.
²² See, God is exalted in his power;
    who is a teacher like him?
²³ Who has prescribed for him his way,
    or who can say, ‘You have done wrong'?

²⁴ "Remember to extol his work,
    of which mortals have sung.
²⁵ All people have looked on it;
    everyone watches it from far away.
²⁶ Surely God is great, and we do not know him;
    the number of his years is unsearchable.
²⁷ For he draws up the drops of water;
    he distills^[b] his mist in rain,
²⁸ which the skies pour down
    and drop upon mortals abundantly.
²⁹ Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
    the thunderings of his pavilion?
³⁰ See, he scatters his lightning around him
    and covers the roots of the sea.
³¹ For by these he governs peoples;
    he gives food in abundance.
³² He covers his hands with the lightning,
    and commands it to strike the mark.
³³ Its crashing^[c] tells about him;
    he is jealous^[d] with anger against iniquity.