because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?

I was not in safety, nor did I have rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble comes.

Did not their remainder in them remove? They will die, and not in wisdom.

He did great things, and no searching;. and wonders even no number:

frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.

And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

Teach me, and I will be silent.
Help me understand what I did wrong.

Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind?

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

“As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.

that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.

When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

He did great things even not searched out; and wonders even no number.

Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me} like cheese?

That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;

‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!

But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:

“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?
It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?

But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;

Who knew not in all these that the hand of God did this?

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me?

"Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being on earth,

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

“There is nothing left of what he devoured;
Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?

“For what pleasure does he have in his house and family after he is dead,
When the number of his months [of life] is cut off?

Did you not ask those who go by the way? And do you not know their signs,

Who shall announce his way upon his face? and who shall requite to him that he did?

Yet shall he be brought to his grave, and dwell among the heap of the dead.

Did it please to the Almighty that thou wilt be just? and if gain if thou wilt perfect thy ways?

which said unto God, 'Go from us.' And what did the Almighty do with them?

Saying , Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

“Even today my complaint is contentious;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

He did evil to the barren; she will not bear: andhewill not do good to the widow.

Who did you speak these words to?
Whose breath came out of your mouth?

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,
And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].

Abaddon and death said, "We did hear a rumor about it.'

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

The voice of nobles, was hushed, and their tongue to their palate, did cleave;

“I was a father to the needy;
I investigated the case I did not know [and assured justice].

“After I spoke, they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].

“I smiled at them when they did not believe,
And they did not diminish the light of my face.

They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.

I cried to You, and You did not hear me; I stood up, and You did not consider me.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

My bowels boiled, and did not rest; the days of trouble confront me.

Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: -

If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

if he did not bless me
while warming himself with the fleece from my sheep,

Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand?

(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

"Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did?

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and did not dare show you my opinion.

But he did not direct [his] words to me, and I will not answer him with your words.

For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

But, in very deed, hear, I pray thee, Job, my discourse, and, to all my words, give thou ear.

To turn a son of earth from his deed, while yet, pride, from man he concealeth:

And his soul will draw near to the pit, and his life to the dead.

“He sings out to other men,
‘I have sinned and perverted that which was right,
And it was not proper for me!

because they turned aside from following Him
and did not understand any of His ways

Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add.

Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions - that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;

By the breath of God ice is given; and the expanse of waters is frozen tight.

Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?

From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered [the] frost of heaven?

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?

because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.

And its young ones lick blood greedily, and where [the] dead carcasses [are], there they [are]."

“Behold now, Behemoth, which I created as well as you;
He eats grass like an ox.

“His strong scales are his pride,
Bound together as with a tight seal.

He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.

Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.