For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

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

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.

Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

"Whenever I went out to the city gate, a seat had been reserved for me in the plaza.

Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.

Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.

"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

(But from my youth the orphan grew up with me as with a father,
And from my mother’s womb I have been the widow’s guide),

if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

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

{Have the people of my tent not said}, '{O that} someone had not been satisfied with his meat'?

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

But then Barachel's son Elihu from Buz, one of Ram's descendants, got really angry. He was furious with Job because he had been declaring himself righteous instead of vindicating God.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

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

For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast,

Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

Lo, in this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones is enduring.

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

His flesh hath been made fresher than a child's, he hath returned to the days of his youth;

He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight!

May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

because he has been adding rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and keeps on ranting against God."

Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

He will not withdraw - from a righteous one - his eyes, - but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.

But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,

And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.

Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?"

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?

Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?

As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

There is not - upon the dust - his like, that hath been made to be without fear;

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also Jehovah added to Job all that had been his, to double.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they consoled him, and comforted him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.