I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.

“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust],
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;

Is there any help at all in me? Is not, abiding success, driven from me?

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.

Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

Also -- the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.

And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: -- Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion.

The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.

Then Job died at an old age, having lived a full life.

“I thought age should speak,
And increased years should teach wisdom.

Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.

“Inquire, please, of past generations,
And consider and apply yourself to the things searched out by their fathers.