"Because you're the one who closed their hearts to compassion; therefore, you won't let them triumph.

He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

He has made me also a byword of the people; and I was as one before whom men spit.

The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

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

But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?

They shall dwell in his tent, who are none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

Surely these [are] the dwellings of [the] godless, and this [is] the dwelling place of him [who] knows not God."

then understand that it is God who has wronged me
and caught me in His net.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

All darkness shall be laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown upon shall consume him; it shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

"Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Have you never consulted those who travel the roads?
Don’t you accept their reports?

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?

The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.

"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

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

Who said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do to us?

But it was He who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

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

Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?

For who so humbleth himself, him shall he set up: and who so looketh meekly, shall be healed.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place.

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;
So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

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

“It is God who has made my heart faint,
And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

"Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and [why] do not [those who] know him see his days?

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Who make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.

[He] feeds on [the] barren, [who] does not have a child, and does no good to [the] widow.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

"Domination and dread [are] with him who makes peace in his high heavens.

Is there any number to his armies? and upon whom does not his light arise?

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!

How you have advised {one who has no wisdom}! And [what] sound wisdom you have made known {in abundance}!

To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?

"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;

Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;

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?

As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell}; [those] who are forgotten {by travelers}, they dangle, they sway [far away] from human beings.

Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

Yea, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom vigor has perished?

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

Who pick mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

“They are driven from the community;
They shout after them as after a thief.

They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

Yes, I know that You will lead me to death—
the place appointed for all who live.

Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.

Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

Did not he [who] made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

if I have seen [the one who] perishes because of no clothing or [that] there is no covering for the poor,

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

This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.

"If I have rejoiced at [the] ruin of [the one who] hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him--

If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

[It is] not {the aged} [who] are wise, or [it is not] [the] elders [who] understand justice.

And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no [one] for Job [who] refuted, answering his words among you.