Job, don’t be afraid of me.\par I won’t be hard on you.\par
Stop punishing me,\par and stop scaring me with your terrors.\par
“But Job, I heard what you said.\par
God is not a man like me.\par That is why I can’t answer him.\par We can’t meet each other in court.\par
I wish there were someone to take God’s\par punishing stick away.\par Then God would not scare me any more.\par
God, you made life harder and harder on me, day and night.\par I became like a dry, dry land in the hot summertime.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [199]})\i0 \par
Lord, you were angry at me,\par and the punishment is killing me.\par
