Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, That You should despise the work of Your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands.
Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
For the Lord hears the poor, And does not despise His prisoners.
“Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
“Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”
Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Indeed their prosperity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be?
It is all one thing; Therefore I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’
Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildoers.
‘Your hands have made me and fashioned me, An intricate unity; Yet You would destroy me.
God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
“As God lives, who has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
But You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.
Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?