The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?

He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?

But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.

For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.