Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Your hands have made me and fashioned me together throughout; yet you destroy me.
You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire for the work of your hands.
That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Know now that God has overthrown me, and has surrounded me with his net.
Lo, their welfare is not in their power: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has troubled my soul;
You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.
Will you also make void my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers:
This is all one thing, therefore I said that He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Know that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands.
For the LORD hears the poor, and does not despise his prisoners.
But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as to a faithful Creator.