Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
Thou dost call, and I -- I answer Thee; To the work of Thy hands Thou hast desire.
For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
And he hath filled their houses `with' good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.
Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.
Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.
Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who `is' he?
Know that Jehovah He `is' God, He made us, and we are His, His people -- and the flock of His pasture.
Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness `is' to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.
so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.