and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, 'Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'

Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?

If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

The deep hath said, 'It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, 'It is not with me.'

Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion -- even I.

Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'