for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

{Have the people of my tent not said}, '{O that} someone had not been satisfied with his meat'?

Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].