And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked;
judgment and justice have seized you.

“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,
For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.

“Who has appointed God His way,
And who can say [to Him], ‘You have done wrong’?

Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.

He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

"When he commandeth the snow, it falleth upon the earth: As soon as he giveth the rain a charge, immediately the showers have their strength, and fall down.

Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it is in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.

The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know and have understanding.

By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

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

“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,

“Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea
Or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep?

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

“Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

Don’t you know? You were already born;
you have lived so long!

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Do you know when mountain goats give birth?
Have you watched the deer in labor?

They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

“Will you have faith in him that he will return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

“Have you given the horse his might?
Have you clothed his neck with quivering and a shaking mane?

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

“Have you an arm like God,
And can you thunder with a voice like His?

"When you have adorned yourself with exalted majesty, clothed yourself with splendor and dignity,

dispensed the fury of your anger, made sure that you have humbled every proud person,

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.

Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

For when thou thinkest to have hold upon him, he shall beguile thee: Every man also that seeth him, shall go back.

“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?]

The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved.

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

He leaves a path shining after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.

“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 he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.