For though I were righteous, I could not answer.
I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge.

Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?

For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!

That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is, - -Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.

“Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect,
And you would be steadfast and not fear.

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

"{O that} my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!

That, with a stylus of iron and with lead, for all time - in the rock, they could be graven!

His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness.

Who said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them?

If only I knew how to find Him,
so that I could go to His throne.

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;
So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,

When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;

If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it;
they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

“I have made a covenant (agreement) with my eyes;
How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?

what could I do when God stands up to judge?
How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

But when he saw that the three men could not answer Job, he became angry.

“I even paid close attention to [what] you [said],
Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him],
Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.

Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more.

"You spoke clearly so I could hear; I've heard what you've said:

His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn't be seen, are visible.

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

Could one who hates justice govern the world?
Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,

Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know.

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

When the pillars are overthrown, What could, a righteous man, do?

Then the channels of the sea could be seen, and the foundations of the earth were uncovered because of your rebuke, LORD, because of the blast from the breath of your nostrils.

I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand, but fall under my feet. {TYNDALE: I wasted them and so clouted them, that they could not arise: but fell under my feet.}

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

I exalt you, LORD, for you have lifted me up, and my enemies could not gloat over me.

There shall reach him a ruin he could not know, - Yea, his own net which he hath hidden, shall capture him, Into that ruin, shall he fall!

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Until I could enter the holy places of God, - Could give heed to their hereafter: -

But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil,
They have slept the sleep [of death];
And none of the warriors could use his hands.

Thou hast held, watching, mine eyes, I was driven to and fro, and could not speak;

In the sea, was thy way, And, thy path, in the mighty waters, And, thy footprints, could not be known:

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

His priests fell by the sword,
but the widows could not lament.

When your fathers, tested me, They proved me, yea they also saw what I could do.

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.

He led them by the straight way,
To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].

It was good for me to be afflicted
so that I could learn Your statutes.

If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

How could we sing the song of Yahweh in {a foreign land}?

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?

If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.

I explored with my mind how to let my body enjoy life with wine and how to grasp folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

I gathered silver and gold together, even a treasure of kings and lands. I provided me singers and women which could play of instruments, to make man mirth and pastime. I gat me drinking cups also and glasses.

Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:

and who could know whether a, wise man, he would be or a foolish, and yet he would lord it over all my toil, wherein I had toiled and wherein I had acted wisely, under the sun, - even this, was vanity.

For who could eat and who could enjoy, so well as I?

Everything, hath he made beautiful in its own time, - also, intelligence, hath he put in their heart, without which men could not find out the work which God hath wrought, from the beginning even unto the end.

I, could indeed find, to be, more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is, snares and nets, and her hands, bonds, - whoso is pleasing before God, shall escape from her, but, he that sinneth, shall be captured by her.

Then I considered all the work of God, that man could not find out the work that was done under the sun, inasmuch as man toileth in seeking and yet cannot find, - yea, even though the wise man should say he knoweth, yet can he not find it out.

For, unto all this, I applied my heart, and, my heart, considered all this, that, the righteous and the wise and their servants, were in the hand of God, - neither love nor hatred, could any man know, every one, was before Him.

For, indeed, man could not know his own time, like fishes which were caught in a cruel net, and like little birds which were caught in a trap, - like them, were ensnared the sons of men, by a time of misfortune, when it fell upon them suddenly.

However, a poor but wise man lived in the city, and he could have delivered the city by his wisdom, but no one listened to that poor man.

Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!

(The Shulammite Bride)“On my bed night after night [I dreamed that] I sought the one
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.

“I said ‘So I must arise now and go out into the city;
Into the streets and into the squares [places I do not know]
I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but I did not find him.

“I had taken off my dress,
How can I put it on again?
I had washed my feet,
How could I get them dirty again?

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive in your tresses.

If only I could treat you like my brother,
one who nursed at my mother’s breasts,
I would find you in public and kiss you,
and no one would scorn me.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has declared this so I could hear it: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great and beautiful houses, without occupants.

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there could be a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, it shall even be briers and thorns.

Does an ax exalt itself
above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts it!
It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!

The remaining trees of its forest
will be so few in number
that a child could count them.

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?"'

You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall.

"Come, go to this steward, to Shebna who is in charge of the household, and ask him: "What are you doing here, and who are your relatives here that you could carve out a grave for yourself here cutting out a tomb at the choicest location, chiseling out a resting place for yourself out of solid rock?

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They could only whisper a prayer,
Your chastening was upon them.

We were with child - We were in pain, As it were we brought forth wind, - Salvation, we could not accomplish for the earth, Neither were horn the inhabitants of the world.

I am not angry. If only the vineyard could give me briers and thorns to battle, I would march against it, and I would burn it all up.