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."

“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.

Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to those who bring death.

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

He made supplication unto GOD, who hath accepted him, and he hath beheld his face with a shout of triumph, Thus hath he given back to man his righteousness.

"Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know,

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

"Therefore, listen to me, {people who have sense}: far be it from God {that he should commit wickedness} and that Shaddai {should do wrong}.

Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?

To whom hath he given his heart, for to draw his spirit and breath unto him?

Shall [he who] hates justice really govern? Or will you declare [the] Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?--

Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'

who {shows no partiality to officials} and [who] {does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant}, for all of them [are] the work of his hands?

There's no such thing as darkness to him not even deep darkness that can conceal those who practice evil.

Who therefore turned away from after him, and they consider not all his ways,

And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same.

so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare [the] people.

{Those who have sense} say to me, and [the] wise man hearing me [says]:

Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil,

What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?

“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,
And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,

[who] teaches us more than [the] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.

for truly my words [are] not falsehood; [one who has] perfect knowledge [is] with you.

He will not keep alive one who is wicked, but gives right to the afflicted.

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

"O consider how great and excellent his works be, whom all men love and praise:

Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is blameless in knowledge?

The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, is exalted in power; and to judgment and overflowing righteousness He does no violence.

Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any {who think that they are wise}."

Who is this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

"Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb,

Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

Who turneth the clots to dust, and then to be clots again?

Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.

Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?

to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

“Will you have faith and depend on him to return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

“Have you [Job] made him leap like a locust?
The majesty of his snorting [nostrils] is terrible.

"Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it."

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

"Behold Behemoth, whom I made with thee, which eateth hay as an ox:

"It [is] the first of God's actions; the [one who] made him furnishes [it with] his sword.

Who dare lay a hand on him openly, and undertake to catch him? Or, who dare put a hook through his nose, and lay a snare for him?

None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who is he before Me stationeth himself?

Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it is mine.

Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his double bridle who doth enter?

The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth are terrible.

"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”

Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.