“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves?

A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering knees.

“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished?
Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?

“As I have seen, those who plow wickedness
And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

Therefore there is hope for those who are poor, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Surely God won't reject those who are blameless or hold hands with those who practice evil.

Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.

A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

"With God are strength and sound wisdom; both the deceived and those who deceive are responsible to him.

He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

“He deprives the trusted ones of speech
And takes away the discernment and discretion of the aged.

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

Both [the] gray-haired and [the] old [are] among us-- {those older than your father}.

for [the] company of [the] godless [is] barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

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!

Yet he perishes forever like his own refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken.

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?

The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

‘Surely our adversaries are cut off and destroyed,
And fire has consumed their abundance.’

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

"What a help you are to the weak! How powerfully you deliver those without strength!

How have you advised those not wise, or fully declared wise plans?

Before whom hast thou spoken those words? Who made the breath to come out of the mouth?

"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

Those who were about to die blessed me, and I made widows sing for joy.

I was a father to the needy; I diligently inquired into the case of those I didn't know.

I directed their course and presided as chief.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.

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"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.

“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

“Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning,
And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.

if not calamity that is due the unjust, and misfortune that is due those who practice iniquity?

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

traffics in those who practice evil, and walks with wicked people?

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

There's no such thing as darkness to him not even deep darkness that can conceal those who practice evil.

He struck them for the unjust in the place of those seeing;

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare [the] people.

{Those who have sense} say to me, and [the] wise man hearing me [says]:

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.

Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

“They die in youth,
And their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:

Do you understand how the clouds float,
those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?

Who can open his jaws,
surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.