God gives me up to the evil and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
I was at ease, and he broke me in two; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.
So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they are breathing out violence.
and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
See how they conceive evil and are pregnant with mischief and bring forth lies.
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.
even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated.
Today you have explained how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.