Does it make you happy to trouble me? Don’t you care about me, the work of your hands? Are you happy with the plans of evil people?
“Your hands shaped and made me. Do you now turn around and destroy me?
You will call, and I will answer you; you will desire the creature your hands have made.
Why do you speak out your anger against God? Why do these words pour out of your mouth?
God has turned me over to evil people and has handed me over to the wicked.
Then know that God has wronged me and pulled his net around me.
The success of the wicked is not their own doing. Their way of thinking is different from mine.
But it was God who filled their houses with good things. Their way of thinking is different from mine.
“As surely as God lives, who has taken away my rights, the Almighty, who has made me unhappy,
You have turned on me without mercy; with your powerful hand you attacked me.
God made me in my mother’s womb, and he also made them; the same God formed both of us in our mothers’ wombs.
The Spirit of God created me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
“Will the person who argues with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God answer him.”
Would you say that I am unfair? Would you blame me to make yourself look right?
“Surely God does not reject the innocent or give strength to those who do evil.
It is all the same. That is why I say, ‘God destroys both the innocent and the guilty.’
When the land falls into the hands of evil people, he covers the judges’ faces so they can’t see it. If it is not God who does this, then who is it?
Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep he tends.
Lord, you do everything for me. Lord, your love continues forever. Do not leave us, whom you made.
The Lord listens to those in need and does not look down on captives.
But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.
So those who suffer as God wants should trust their souls to the faithful Creator as they continue to do what is right.