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

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly show partiality.

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.

In any case, I will take up my flesh in my teeth, and, my life, will I put in my hand:

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

Yes, this will result in my deliverance,
for no godless person can appear before Him.

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

Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die.

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

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

Why wilt thou hide thy face, and reckon me for an enemy to thee?

Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

For thou wilt write bitter things against me; and thou wilt give me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

And thou wilt set my feet in the stocks, and thou wilt watch all my paths; thou wilt dig round the roots of my feet

And he as rottenness will fall away; as a garment the moth ate it.

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 for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.

Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches 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} a man lies down, and he does not arise. {Until the heavens are no more}, they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of 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 dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.

You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.

For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:

My transgression is sealed up in a purse, and thou wilt patch upon mine iniguity.

But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

The waters rubbed the stones: thou wilt overflow the flowings of the dust of the earth; and thou didst destroy the hope of man.

Thou wilt overpower him forever, and he will go away: changing his face, thou wilt send him away.

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

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?

Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them.

Also thou wilt bring to nought, fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation before God.

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."

Shalt thou hear in the consultation of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom to thyself?

What knewest thou and we shall not know? wilt thou understand and it not be with us?

That thou wilt turn thy spirit against God, and thou broughtest words from thy 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 show you, 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.

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

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

For he stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against the Almighty.

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

For he covered his face with his fat, and he will make fatness upon the flank

{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 paid in full {before his time}, and his branch will not flourish.

"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,

Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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?

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.

They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together 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, thou wilt not cover my blood; and shall there not be place for my cry?

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

Lay down a surety for me with you; who is he that will give surety for me?

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

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

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

Yet the righteous person will hold to his way,
and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.

But come back and try again, all of you.
I will not find a 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 then [is] my hope? And {who will see 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 before you make an end of words? consider, 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.

For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

And Job will answer and say,

How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

These ten times ye will reproach me: ye will not be ashamed, ye will injure me.

If indeed I erred my error will lodge with me.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.

He will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as a tree.

And he will kindle his anger against me, and he will reckon me to him as his enemy.