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To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.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 snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

They were saying to God, 'Turn away from us,' 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, cometh forth bread, and, under it, is upturned, as it were fire;

“Oh that I were as in months gone by,
As in the days when God watched over 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,
And my children were around me;

When my steps were bathed in butter,
And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

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 put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

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;

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

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.

In want and hunger, they were lean, - who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!

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

Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves.

Among the bushes, used they to shriek, Under the bramble, were they huddled together:

“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

"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].

Elihu waited to have a word with Job, since the others 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.

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

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; words failed them.

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 he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,

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 hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.

If only Job were tested to the limit,
because his answers are like those of wicked men.

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 hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions - that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;

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

Shall it be declared to him - that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!

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 set? Who laid its corner stone

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!

“She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers;
Though her labor be in vain, she is unconcerned;

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.

In all the land no women were found so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.