But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.

You has tested my heart; You have visited [me] in the night; You have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me; [I am purposed] that my mouth shall not speak [amiss.]

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my mind and my heart.

Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.

[Saying], I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly.

For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas [there is] a visitation on him from the Lord.

even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.

Why do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,