[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.

You shall come in maturity to [the] grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.

Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?

Do you intend to reprove [my] words and [consider the] words of a desperate [man] as wind?

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

{Do you have eyes of flesh}? Or {do you see as human beings see}?

[Are] your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man,

And [if my head] grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; {and you repeat your exploits against me}.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

"But ask [the] animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;

or ask the earth, and it will teach you, and the fishes of the sea will declare to you.

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

[As] water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.

and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend.

If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,

Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes?

and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

Do you not ask [those] traveling [the] roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts?

And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?

They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.

"Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.

From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.

"{As God lives}, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

For {as long as} my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nose,

[As for the] earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as [by] fire.

"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out [as] its price.

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding [was] over my {house},

And they waited for me as [for] the rain, and they opened their mouth wide [as] for [the] spring rain.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as [at] a thief,

As [through] a wide breach they come; amid a crash they rush on.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.

no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.

{Have I concealed} my transgressions as [other] human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

Whether as {correction} or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen.

with him can you spread out [the] skies, hard as a molten mirror?

[As for] Shaddai, we cannot attain him; [he is] exalted [in] power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.

"Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,

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

It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.

It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain,

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.

Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.

Smoke comes from its nostrils as [from] a kettle boiling and [burning] bulrushes.

Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as [the] lower millstone.

It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.