And so it was, when the days of the banquet came round, that Job sent and hallowed them, and rising early in the morning offered ascending-sacrifices according to the number of them all; for Job said, Peradventure my sons have sinned, and have cursed God in their hearts. Thus and thus, was Job wont to do all the days.

Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.

Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.

So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:

I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

Lo! as for this, we have searched it out - so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.

For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake.

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.

They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.

So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.

I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden?

If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him saying - I have not seen thee.

As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves - the proud helpers.

One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food.

If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me:

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail, - and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.

I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

Lo! I pray you, I have set forth in order a plea, I know that, I, shall be found right.

Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up;

Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:

I will tell thee - hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.

I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!

They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks.

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.

Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.

And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.

Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;

Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;

Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;

All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.

Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, shall have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!

Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?

And thou shalt decree a purpose, and it shall be fulfilled unto thee, and, upon thy ways, shall have shone a light;

Even to-day, is my complaint rebellion? His hand, is heavier than my groaning.

Of his steps, my foot taketh hold, His way, have I kept, and not swerved;

The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.

Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?

Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.

Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?

Ravenous beasts have not made a track thereof, neither hath the lion marched thereon:

Destruction and death, have said, With our ears, have we heard the report thereof!

But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused - to set with the dogs of my flock.

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

They abhor me - have put themselves far from me, and, from my face, have not withheld - spittle!

He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,

Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh - we cannot get filled,

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man.

Lo! I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue, with my palate, hath spoken,

Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;

Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!

Pure am, I, without transgression, - Clean am, I, and have no iniquity;

Then hath he shewed him favour, and said, Set him free from going down to the pit, I have found a price of redemption!

He hath ransomed my soul from passing away into the pit, - and, my life, in the light, shall have vision.

For, unto GOD, hath one ever said - I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;

What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?

He will not withdraw - from a righteous one - his eyes, - but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.

But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,

Yea he might even have allured thee - out of the mouth of straitness, into a wide space - no narrowness there, - and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.

Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;

The Almighty, whom we have not fully found out, is great in vigour, - Neither, justice nor abounding righteousness, will he weaken.

Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?

Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?

Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:

Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:

Once, have I spoken, but I will not proceed, yea twice, but I will not add.

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.

And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

Now, therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go unto my servant Job, and ye shall offer up an ascending-sacrifice in your own behalf, and, Job my servant, shall pray over you, - for, him, will I accept, that I may not deal out to you disgrace, because ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

And, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning, - and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;