{And then} one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.

{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

If you [are] pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.

He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure.

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.

[The] upright are appalled at this, and [the] innocent excites himself over [the] godless.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?

Yet he himself filled up their houses [with] good [things], but [the] schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

Would he contend with me in [the] greatness of [his] strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me.

"He himself [is] swift on [the] water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.

for he himself looks to [the] end of the earth; he sees under all the heaven.

if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,

So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}. {He became angry} at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,