He will deliver the island of the innocent: and it was delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Job's response was to say:

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.

“To whom have you uttered words?
And whose spirit was expressed through you?

He bound up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud was not rent under them.

By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Behold these the ends of his ways; how transient a sound of the word was heard in him! and the thunder of his might who shall understand?

The earth, from it will come forth bread, and under it was turned as fire.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

"O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

I was successful wherever I went, and even the rocks poured out streams of olive oil for me."

The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was as a robe and a turban.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

My root was spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all.

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

What use to me was the strength of their hands?
Their vigor had left them.

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

Their dwelling was beside foul brooks, yea in the caves and dens of the earth.

And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word.

and my path have they clean marred. It was so easy for them to do me harm, that they needed no man to help them.

Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.

My skin was black from above me, and my bones burnt from heat

If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;

If his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could not endure.

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining
or at the moon moving in splendor,

and {I was secretly enticed}, and {my hand threw them a kiss},

If I rejoiced at the ruin of my hater, and I was excited when evil found him;

because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors --

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath aroused, because he justified himself rather than God.

Also against his three friends was his wrath aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was aroused.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,

Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

For I was filled with words, the spirit of my belly pressed upon me.

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually.

Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth.

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

For Job said, I was just: and God removed my judgment

Shall I speak falsehood against my judgment? mine arrow was desperate without transgression.

For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more.

And what's more, he allured you {out of distress} [into] a broad place, [where] in place of it [was] no constraint; and [what] was set on your table is full of fatness.

Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out

Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

Where wast thou, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the children of God rejoiced triumphantly?

"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place,

Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!

“Will you have faith and depend on him to return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

“Have you [Job] made him leap like a locust?
The majesty of his snorting [nostrils] is terrible.

Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.

I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.

Behold, his hope was false: shall he not be cast down at his sight?

The bludgeon was reckoned to him for stubble: and he will laugh at the shaking of the javelin.

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

"There's nothing like him on earth; he was created without the ability to fear.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double.

And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

He named the first daughter Jemima, the second Keziah, and the name of the third was Keren-happuch.