Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wrong?
Your hands have made me and shaped me, together all around, yet You destroy me.
You would call, and I would answer You. You have yearned for the work of Your hands.
That you should turn your spirit against Ě
Ě
know then that Eloah has overthrown me, and has surrounded me with His net.
See, is their good not in their own hand? (The counsel of the wrong has been far from me).
Yet He filled their houses with the good! (But the counsel of the wrong has been far from me).
“As Ě
You have become cruel to me; with the power of Your hand You oppose me.
Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?
The Spirit of Ě
“Should a reprover contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves Eloah answer it.”
Would you also set aside My judgment? Would you pronounce Me wrong, and you be declared righteous?
See, Ě
It is all the same, therefore I say, ‘He destroys the perfect and the wrong.’
Earth has been given into the hand of the wrong. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
Know that יהוה, He is Elohim; He has made us, and we are His – His people and the sheep of His pasture.
יהוה does perfect for me. O יהוה, Your kindness is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
For יהוה hears the poor, And He shall not despise His captives.
And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.
So then, those who suffer according to the desire of Elohim should commit their lives to a trustworthy Creator, in doing good.