Is it with a man, that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit be then in sore trouble?

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man?
And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’

Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

‘Surely our adversaries are cut off and destroyed,
And fire has consumed their abundance.’

He shall give thee a harvest, which in plenty and abundance shall exceed the dust of the earth, and the gold of Ophir like river stones.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

For he performeth that which is appointed for me: And many such things are with him.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

whereas they, notwithstanding, are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seek not his light and way, nor turn again in to his path.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

Where is the counsel that thou shouldest give him, which hath no wisdom? Wilt thou so show thine excellent righteousness?

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

“Its stones are the bed of sapphires;
It holds dust of gold.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.

“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

“For it is a fire which consumes to Abaddon (destruction, ruin, final torment);
And [illicit passion] would burn and rage and uproot all my [life’s] increase [destroying everything].

Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

But there is a spirit which is in man; and the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

My words'shall utter the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life [which inspires me].

that it is he, which withdraweth man from evil, delivereth him from pride,

His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, [which] are invisible, are bared.

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

yea, above his sins he hath blasphemed, which offense he hath done even before us, in that he striveth against God with his words!"

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Which giveth us more understanding than he doth the beasts of the earth, and teacheth us more than the fouls of heaven?'

“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust],
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

“And now, because He has not [quickly] punished in His anger,
Nor has He acknowledged transgression and arrogance well [and seems unaware of the wrong of which a person is guilty],

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

But beware that thou turn not aside to wickedness and sin, which hitherto thou hast chosen more than meekness.

Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

He covers [his] hands [with] lightning, and he commands it the place at [which] to strike.

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend."

“The earth is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed;
And the things [of the earth] stand out like a [multi-colored] garment.

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],

[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Upon earth there is not his like, which is made without fear.

Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.

And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.