Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.

so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.

What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,

He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?

His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.

O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no [resting] place.

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.

For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].

But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

though he spares it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,

He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights.

There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

He will deliver [even] him who is not innocent. Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there], and backward, but I cannot perceive him,

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.

And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom does his light not arise?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

He lays down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.

He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lays all night upon my branch.

After my words they spoke not again, and my speech distilled upon them.

I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.

They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.

However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

(yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

(the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door--

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.

For he has not directed his words against me. Neither will I answer him with your speeches.

They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say.