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 hath he hidden the gloom from me.

“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.

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

As I was in the prime of my days,
When the friendship of God was over my tent;

When the Almighty was yet with me,
And my children were around 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 stuck 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 used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

The blessing of him that was perishing 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 like a robe and a turban.

“I was eyes to the blind
And feet to the lame.

“I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.

My root was spread out by 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;

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from 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.

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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 went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

"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;

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

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

If his loins have not thanked and blessed me [for clothing them],
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 calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

And befooled secretly was my heart, so that my hand kissed my mouth,

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook 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 --

These three men stopped responding to Job, because he was claiming to be righteous, in his own opinion.

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.

Furthermore, he was furious with his three friends because they had not answered Job, but instead had condemned him.

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men his anger burned.

Barachel's son Elihu from Buz responded and said: "I'm younger than you are. Because you're older, I was terrified to tell you what I know.

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

“I even paid close attention to you;
Indeed, there was no one who refuted Job,
Not one of you who answered his words.

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

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

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

Let his flesh be rejuvenated as he was in his youth! Let him recover the strength of his youth.

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

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.

“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress,
Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;
And that which was set on your table was 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 thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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