but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep.

If thou wouldest but call me, I should obey thee: only despise not the work of thine own hands.

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

Thou hast sealed up mine offenses, as it were in a bag: but be merciful unto my wickedness.

"But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

But you even undermine the fear of God
and hinder meditation before Him.

But thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue.

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?

What wise men have [freely] told,
And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,

He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones.

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would relieve your grief.

"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?

But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.

“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].

He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

But [the] righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands} increases in strength.

But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!

But if ye will enhance yourselves against me, and accuse me to be a wicked person because of the shame that is come upon me;

Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must {personally} plead with him.

But I myself know [that] my redeemer [is] alive, and [at the] last he will stand up upon {the earth}.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

Yea, I myself shall behold him - not with other, but with these same eyes, though my reins are consumed within me.

But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

But beware of the sword, for the sword will be avenged of wickedness. And be sure, that there is a judgment."

The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit - out of my understanding, will give me a reply.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not see him again.

His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.

But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them.

for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.

Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

"He will flee from an iron weapon, [but] an arrow of bronze will pierce him.

But Job answered and said,

They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

But their prosperity is not of their own doing.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

But they both lie in the dust,
and worms cover them.

"But I know what ye think; yea, and what ye imagine against me unrighteously.

“But who will confront him with his actions and rebuke him face to face,
And who will repay him for what he has done?

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

you see nothing but darkness, and a flood of troubles drowns you."

"[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}.

But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

[The] righteous see, and they rejoice, but [the] innocent [one] mocks at them.

Surely our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

"For when they're humbled, you may respond; "It's their pride!' but he delivers the humble.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.

But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

But I am not silenced by the darkness,
Nor deep gloom which covers me.

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.

Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread [the] presses, but they are thirsty.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.

He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, but no man is sure of life.

He gives security to him, and he is supported, but his eyes [are] upon their ways.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

But, if not, who then can convict me of falsehood? or make of no account my words?

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot -- a son of man, who is only a worm!"

But Job answered and said,

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.

but it will clap its hands over him, hissing at him as it lunges toward him."

As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

"But wisdom -- where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

But God understands the way to wisdom,
and He knows its location.

“But to man He said, ‘Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is understanding.’”

But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

They abhor me they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence.

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

I cry to you for help, but you do not answer me; I stand, and you [merely] look at me.

In times past thou didst set me up on high, as it were above the wind, but now hast thou given me a very sore fall.