And now, if he would kill me, I will hope in him; in this, truly, I will correct my ways in his sight.
And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand.
If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.
Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
Truly, he knows my way and has tested me like gold that passes through fire.
Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.
Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.
My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.
The impious will be expelled in his malice. But the just finds hope even in his own death.
And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
But I will rejoice in the Lord; and I will exult in God my Jesus.
For even if our heart reproaches us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows all things.