Leading away priests stripped off, and he will overthrow the mighty.

Removing the lip to the faithful, and he will take discernment of old men.

Revealing deep things from darkness, and he will bring to light the shadow of death.

Making great to the nations, and he will destroy them: he spread out to the nations, and he will guide them.

Taking away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and he will cause them to wander in a waste, not a way.

They will feel darkness and not light, and he will cause them to wander as one intoxicated.

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with God;

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you?

“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

“This also will be my salvation,
For a godless man may not come before Him.

Please look, I have prepared [my] case; I know that I myself will be vindicated.

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?
Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

While I am decaying like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.

Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?

The waters departed from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up;

So man lies down and does not rise [again].
Until the heavens are no longer,
The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.

Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

"For thou hast numbered all my goings, yet be not thou too extreme upon my sins.

But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:

You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.

His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.

While he liveth, his flesh must have travail: And while the soul is in him, he must be in sorrow."

and EliPhaz the Temanite will answer and say,

Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty.

Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

“Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]?
And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],

as you turn your anger against God
and allow such words to leave your mouth?

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes.

I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

Which the wise ones will announce, and he hid it not from their fathers.

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

Sounds of terror [are] in his ears; in prosperity [the] destroyer will come [against] him.

“He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered],
And he is destined for the sword [of God’s vengeance].

Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

He will run against him upon the neck, upon the thicknesses of his shields:

whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking.

{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.

He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.

"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.

Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].

"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;

For the company of the godless will have no children,
and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.

And Job will answer and say,

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?
Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?

Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it

I will strengthen you with my month, the moving of my lips shall hold back

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.

He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me.

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust

I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:

His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth.

He will break me, breaking upon the face of breaking; he will run upon me as the strong one.

“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no [resting] place for my cry [where it will cease being heard].

My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].

He denounces friends for reward, so his children's eyes will fail.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

“The upright will be appalled at this,
And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless.

And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

They will set the night for day: the light being near from the face of darkness.

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

Where now is my hope?
And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

And Bildad the Shuhite will answer and say,

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

"[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?

Furthermore, the light of [the] wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.