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One day the sons of God
and He will stand on the dust
There was a man in the country of Uz
saying:
and naked I will leave this life.
The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Praise the name of Yahweh.
Tell Me, if you have
He hangs the earth on nothing.
Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind.
But stretch out Your hand and strike
Haven’t You placed a hedge around
and all the sons of God
“The fear of the Lord is this: wisdom.
And to turn from evil is understanding.”
One day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
and the breath of the Almighty
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
How then could I look at a young woman?
a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
is short of days and full of trouble.
I will still defend
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?
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His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Then Job stood up, tore
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”
the Sabeans
He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house.
That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
but now my eyes
when He has tested me,
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.
He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “A lightning storm
and no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.
Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
you have become exhausted.
It strikes
if He goes right by, I wouldn’t recognize Him.
as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!
will no longer see me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
counsel and understanding are His.
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun
Our days on earth are but a shadow.
who drinks injustice
and lift up your hands to Him in prayer—
“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.
for I opened my door to the traveler.
If you banish injustice from your tent
and speak from their understanding?
and Your care has guarded my life.
Who can ask Him, “What are You doing?”
no survivor where he used to live.
and sends water to the fields.
But stretch out Your hand and strike
wonders without number.
for God’s hand
for no godless person
“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”
You will be firmly established and unafraid.
and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents—
and show that my speech is worthless?
that You keep me under guard?
May it not appear
or be listed in the calendar.
The deceived and the deceiver are His.
and those who sow trouble
Where have the honest been destroyed?
recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.
and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.
the full weight of misery
and when He releases them, they destroy the land.
Their way of escape will be cut off,
and their only hope is their last breath.
while those in the east tremble in horror.
and brings the deepest darkness into the light.
and overthrows established leaders.
even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.
and a rock is dislodged from its place,
and multiply Your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
cast a spell
those who are skilled in rousing Leviathan.
You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.
what he trusts in is a spider’s web.
May it wait for daylight but have none;
may it not see the breaking
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
I know that this was Your hidden plan:
He grabs it, but it does not hold up.
I should have died and never been seen.
He makes them stagger like drunken men.
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his shoots spread out over his garden.
if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said.
Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.
because his answers are like those of wicked men.
and this is the place of the one who does not know God.
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
so that they
The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.
and pardon my transgression?
For soon I will lie down in the grave.
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.
and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain
that I have not denied
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.
it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.”
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame
and aware of my affliction.
if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.
and from the clutches of the powerful.
When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud,
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.
they flee without seeing any good.
like infants who never see daylight?
between a man and God
just as a man pleads for his friend.
What is my future, that I should be patient?
A fire unfanned by human hands will consume
it will feed on what is left in his tent.
I would be asleep.
Then I would be at rest
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.
and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.
and there the weary find rest.
who rebuilt ruined cities for themselves,
before I go the way of no return.
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Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights,
Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”
“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
rescued from the day of wrath.
and understanding comes with long life.
He enlarges nations,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,
Who would repay
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like
so that I will not have to hide from Your presence:
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.
overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.
Leave me alone,
death rather than life in this body.
and pay so much attention to him?
or I will speak, and You can respond to me.
He strikes, but His hands also heal.
Then Job answered:
They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
since the root of the problem lies with him?”
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your sin.
by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
and not fear the animals of the earth.
Which of the holy ones
and jealousy slays the gullible.
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
like a moth-eaten garment.
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and not fear destruction when it comes.
and someone keeps watch over his tomb.
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining
in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.
and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why You prosecute me.
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?
He said:
but the fangs of young lions are broken.
they do not hear the voice of their oppressor.
If He sees iniquity, will He not take note of it?
and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
and stand watch over all my paths,
setting a limit for the soles
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
as seasonal streams that overflow
and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.
and curdle me like cheese?
or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
Will You now return me to dust?
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.
His possessions
and your lips with a shout of joy.
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?
flowing away on the day of God’s anger.
and search for it more than for hidden treasure,
and the contempt of the clans terrified me,
so I grew silent and would not go outside?
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
the tent
and wider than the sea.
to reject the work of Your hands,
and favor
and in battle, from the power of the sword.
when deep sleep
and He will not support evildoers.
and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
but how can a person be justified before God?
as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.
Is there flavor in an egg white?
even taking it out of the thorns.
The thirsty
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
only a few
and pay attention to what their fathers discovered,
your final days will be full of prosperity.
and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Then Job answered:
Then Job answered:
He looks for a home among the stones.
Help me understand what I did wrong.
and made all my bones shake.
they come to an end without hope.
Hear it and understand it for yourself.
so that its pillars tremble.
He blindfolds
If it isn’t He, then who is it?
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
and seals off the stars.
Who has opposed Him and come out unharmed?
Your words
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
and torrents wash away the soil from the land,
so You destroy a man’s hope.
his words are without insight.”
When will I get up?
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.
You change his appearance and send him away.
overturning them in His anger.
they disappear from their channels in hot weather.
and your finest silver.
like a hired man he waits for his pay.
and my devastation
as I weep before God.
My skin forms scabs
or a man more pure than his Maker?”
then He will move even now on your behalf
and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.
he scornfully claps
while multiplying
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”
my ears caught a whisper of it.
and light will shine on your ways.
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
and He charges His angels with foolishness,
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
When they arrive there, they are frustrated.
or “Redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless”?
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
and you will fulfill your vows.
he could not answer God
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
and cleanse my hands with lye,
having no covering against the cold.
and the breath
that give him understanding.
His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.
After the Lord had finished speaking
or discover the limits of the Almighty?
No one!
One day the sons of God
“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.
Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!
The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”
“From roaming through the earth,”
If so, I would wait
until my relief comes.
the schemes you would wrong me with.
After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.
they perish forever while no one notices.
so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.
His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,
ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
and braced the knees that were buckling.
All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances
yet I will see God in
or loosen the belt of Orion?
So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
and the number of his months depends on You,
and since You have set
I have treasured
more than my daily food.
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:
Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
The Lord answered Job:
Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me.
Let my Opponent compose His indictment.
He does what He desires.
and repent in dust and ashes.
as surely as sparks fly upward.
His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Did not the same God form us both in the womb?
and treads on the waves of the sea.
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite,
because wrath brings punishment by the sword,
so that you may know there is a judgment.
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;
they will not stir from their sleep.
growing old and becoming powerful?
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
and the one whose hands are clean
he flees like a shadow and does not last.
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
and “Where are the tents
in this way
when it burst from the womb,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Job answered:
as well as the breath of all mankind.
or at the moon moving in splendor,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
one mediator out of a thousand,
to tell a person what is right for him
Then Job answered:
and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,
Everything under heaven belongs to Me.
and Abaddon
Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?
I place my hand over my mouth.
Then Job answered:
so the one who goes down to Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.
and stinkweed
The words of Job are concluded.
We don’t want to know Your ways.
the Pleiades,
After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.
So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
and withdrew the spirit
at the boundary between light and darkness.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to
and would present my case to Him.
Then Zophar the Naamathite
Don’t you accept their reports?
spread out my bed in darkness,
the flashing tip out of his liver.
Terrors come over him.
when they made a complaint against me,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
My days are extinguished.
A graveyard
that we can take each other to court.
the number of His years cannot be counted.
Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you.
so that I could go to His throne.
and by His understanding He crushed Rahab.
but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?
Then Bildad the Shuhite
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
How can one born of woman be pure?
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
It is impossible for God to do wrong,
and for the Almighty to act unjustly.
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.
who provides us with songs in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they slumber on their beds,
Job continued his discourse, saying:
Can you thunder with a voice like His?
how faint is the word we hear of Him!
Who can understand His mighty thunder?
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
your proud waves stop here”?
and go down to Sheol in peace.
for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.
the flame of his fire does not glow.
and He observes all his steps.
Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite
Why do those who know Him never see His days?
Have you watched the deer in labor?
and lead the Bear
and rejoicing at the sound of the flute.
flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.
and it enveloped me;
my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.
Stop and consider God’s wonders.
and marched away to the king of terrors.
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
Let him who argues with God give an answer.
and limited the water by measure,
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?
or called fine gold my trust,
so Sheol
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”
or let the widow’s
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
awesome
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.
and does not favor the rich over the poor,
for they are all the work of His hands.
and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.
when God takes away his life?
and he will return to the days of his youthful vigor.
and aren’t your iniquities endless?
yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
and crush me with words?
He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;
and copper is smelted from ore.
and the strength of the fatherless
Does disaster
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?
and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
so that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.
and my bones burn with fever.
and those I love have turned against me.
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?
men older than your father.
Would you declare Me guilty
So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite replied:
while you are old;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to tell
He does great things that we cannot comprehend.
and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.
Can you impose its
He uproots my hope like a tree.
and the Almighty who has made me bitter,
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.
and constant distress in his bones,
and a river becomes parched and dry,
or gave the mind understanding?
the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.
should the earth be abandoned on your account,
or a rock be removed from its place?
and clothe yourself with honor and glory.
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
His
Will You bring me into judgment against You?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
he seized a house he did not build.
to a spacious and unconfined place.
Your table was spread with choice food.
Can He judge through thick darkness?
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
and place His sayings
my mistake concerns only
“Spare him from going down to the Pit;
I have found a ransom,”
Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
or I have lurked at his door,
and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,
“We have heard news of it with our ears.”
even the words that deal gently with you?
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
I have kept to His way
and chased from the inhabited world.
they construct a ramp
and camp
while his eyes are like the rays
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
He instructs them by their torment.
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join themselves together against me.
the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
and I examined the case of the stranger.
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
trample the wicked where they stand.
or what inheritance from the Almighty on high?
and number all my steps?
or become excited when trouble came his way?
the place
and my close friends have forgotten me.
and removed the crown from my head.
Job continued his discourse, saying:
their cows calve and do not miscarry.
He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.
thinking: No eye will see me;
he covers his face.
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
Then Job answered:
He understands all things.
I have become an object of scorn to them.
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”
Burning sulfur
and its stump starts to die in the soil,
and He will recognize my integrity.
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
I call for help, but there is no justice.
it would destroy my entire harvest.
and spread its wings to the south?
and their foundations
he does not let anything he desires escape.
He is exalted in power!
He will not oppress justice and abundant righteousness,
That man will see His face
and God will restore his righteousness to him.
or a booth set up by a watchman.
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.
or argue the case in His defense?
I have become a man people spit at.
Those who know
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”
closely sealed together.
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?
Then Job died, old and full of days.
My conscience
and flames pour out of his mouth.
when I stand up, You merely look at me.
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.
the mortally wounded cry for help,
yet God pays no attention to this crime.
God will force it from his stomach.
and He has many more things like these in mind.
they withdraw because of his thrashing.
but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,
and they are exalted.
your defenses are made of clay.
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,
and the cold from the driving north winds.
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.
Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.
and multiply my days as the sand.
when the number of his months has run out?
and watery expanses are frozen.
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.
He has veiled my paths with darkness.
since God is greater than man.
and I will continue to see the light.”
Does His light not shine on everyone?
but will lie down with him in the grave.
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
Then Elihu continued, saying:
I will not find a wise man among you.
hiding in the protection
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.
He smells the battle from a distance;
he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.
and trapped by the cords of affliction,
and the torrential rains, His mighty torrential rains,
or the elderly who understand how to judge.
and produce twigs like a sapling.
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
when God’s friendship
and made light seem near in the face of darkness.
and my lips speak with sincerity what they know.
Does He profit if you perfect your behavior?
as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.
when He turns south, I cannot find Him.
for His land, or for His faithful love.
and articles of fine gold cannot be exchanged for it.
How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?
I am a foreigner in their sight.
he probes
for ore in the gloomy darkness.
When I stand up, they mock me.
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.
and maturity should teach wisdom.
without letting the fatherless eat any of it—
do not let a large ransom
even if I beg him with my own mouth.
and a snare waits for him along the path.
which people have sung about.
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
and scorns him from its place.
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
fiery sparks fly out!
turning round and round at His direction,
accomplishing everything He commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.
or what does He receive from your hand?
my heart has followed my eyes,
or impurity has stained my hands,
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.
“I have endured my punishment;
I will no longer act wickedly.
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.
They wither like heads of grain.
or because my own hand has acquired so much,
worms feed on them;
they are remembered
So injustice is broken like a tree.
while all sorts of wild animals play there.
they do not hesitate to spit
imprison them in the grave.
along with a flashing spear and a lance.
no lion has ever prowled over it.
Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.
and do not deal kindly with the widow.
he remains confident, even if the Jordan surges up to his mouth.
and my bow will be renewed in my hand.
and my whole body has become but a shadow.
and his life to the executioners.
“I am righteous before God”?
gaze at the clouds high above you.
when distress comes on him?
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!
the innocent mock them, saying,
and their descendants, before their eyes.
I am clean and have no guilt.
containing flecks of gold.
when He rises up, they have no assurance of life.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.
people shudder, then pass away.
Even the mighty are removed without effort.
They were forced to leave the land.
and an influential man lived on it.
or a needy person without a cloak,
he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.
when I consider this, I am afraid of Him.
yet their widows will not weep for them.
and his household will no longer see him.
and my tongue will not utter deceit.
If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?
Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?
and bring it to your threshing floor?
They leave and do not return.
because of the pride of evil men.
and the innocent are roused against the godless.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
and because of His majesty I could not do these things.
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.
but below the surface the earth is transformed as by fire.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
two or three times to a man
Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
while he flees desperately from its grasp.
his descendants will never have enough food.
when I looked for light, darkness
and my arm be pulled from its socket.
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
Who put Him in charge of the entire world?
they have cast off restraint in my presence.
but His eyes
searching for anything green.
I will not conceal what the Almighty has planned.
one who has perfect knowledge is with you.
He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.
she laughs at the horse and its rider.
when it is in the skies,
after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.
and concealed from the birds of the sky.
so that a flood of water covers you?
and understand what He would say to me.
Would you leave it to do your hard work?
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.
and your righteousness another human being.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.
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When I question
they trap
and construct their siege ramp
that you do not see Him,
that your case
and you are waiting
My wound
though I am without transgression.”
but my gnawing pains never rest.
in places unknown to those who walk above ground.
Suspended far away from people,
the miners swing back and forth.
they will cross the river of death
and die without knowledge.
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
God thunders
He does not restrain the lightning
when His rumbling voice is heard.
that one should
I listened to your insights
as you sought for words.
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
and I have heard these very
or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?
they were thrilled at
and the Almighty does not take note of it—
my speech settled on them like dew.
and I would escape from my Judge
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.
for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”
they huddle against
and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
and I will not respond to him with your arguments.