The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.

To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.

Is not God high in the heavens? and see the head of the stars for they were lifted up.

Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:

They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

If our adversaries were not destroyed, and their remnant the fire shall devour.

For they were humbled, and thou wilt say, A lifting up; and he will save him depressed of eyes.

Wherefore were not times hidden from the Almighty,? and they knowing him saw not his days.

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

Behold even to the moon, and it shall not shine; and the stars were not clean in his eyes.

By his breath {the heavens were made clear}; his hand pierced [the] fleeing snake.

There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried;

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

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

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

As I was in the prime of my days,
When the friendship and counsel of God were over my tent,

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

when my paths were washed in sour milk, and [the] rock poured out streams of oil for me.

[The] voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.

because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them.

Those who were about to die blessed me, and I made widows sing for joy.

I clothed myself in righteousness,
and it enveloped me;
my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

My roots [were] open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it;
they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.

When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.

I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

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.

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

My bowels boiled, and were not silent: the days of affliction anticipated me.

“For what is the portion I would have from God above,
And what heritage from the Almighty on high?

For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies?

(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 his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

"If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one,

The thorn shall come forth, instead of wheat, and the weed instead of barley. The words of Job were completed

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were older than he.

So when Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, saw that these three men were not able to make Job answer, he was miscontent.

Look, I waited for you to speak; I listened closely to your wise thoughts,while you were searching for words.

Indeed, I paid close attention to you all, but none of you were able to refute Job or answer his arguments convincingly.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

May he be made whole, that loveth no right? If thou were a very innocent man, shouldest thou then be punished?

They that were in the stead of Seers, dealt like ungodly men.

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

Look upon the heavens and see; behold the clouds, they were high above thee.

If thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do against him? and thy transgressions were multiplied, what wilt thou do to him?

then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly.

“But you were full of judgment on the wicked;
Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

"Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.

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

On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days [is] great.

It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain,

His body is covered with scales as it were with shields, locked in, kept, and well compact together.

The son of the bow shall not cause him to flee: sling-stones were turned to him for stubble.

His underparts are like'sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

And in all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.