So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "{All right}, he [is] in your {power}. Only spare his life."

[The] lion is perishing without prey, and [the] lion's whelps are scattered.

'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

And he saves from the sword of their mouth, {even} [the] poor from the hand of the strong.

In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from [the] {power of} [the] sword.

Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?

If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the {power} of their transgression.

If you [are] pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.

[He is the one] who made [the] Bear [and] Orion, [the] Pleiades and [the] constellations of [the] south.

They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.

Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me} like cheese?

For you say, 'My teaching [is] pure, and I am clean in your sight.'

{although} violence [is] not on my hands, and my prayer [is] pure.

His children will seek favors from [the] poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.

In the fullness of his excess {he will be in distress}; all of misery's power will come [upon] him.

Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?

And the land {belongs to the man of power}, and {the favored} lives in it.

You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

They thrust [the] poor off the road; [the] needy of [the] earth hide themselves together.

"Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

Look, even [the] moon {is not bright}, and [the] stars are not pure in his sight.

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!

By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

"[It is] a path a bird of prey does not know and [the] black kite's eye has not seen.

The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be bought for pure gold.

I [was] a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's} legal dispute.

And I broke [the] evil one's jaw bones, and I made [his] prey drop from his teeth.

They bray among [the] bushes; they are gathered under [the] nettles.

He seizes my clothing with {great power}; he grasps me by my tunic's collar.

Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?

"If I have withheld [the] desire of [the] poor from [them], or I have caused [the] widow's eyes to fail,

if I have seen [the one who] perishes because of no clothing or [that] there is no covering for the poor,

'I [am] clean, without transgression; I [am] pure, and [there is] no guilt in me.

"Bear with me a little longer, and {I will explain}, for {I still have something to say on God's behalf}.

"Look, God is exalted in his power; who [is] a teacher like him?

which [the] clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.

[As for] Shaddai, we cannot attain him; [he is] exalted [in] power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.

Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?

"Can you hunt prey for [the] lion? And can you satisfy [the] hunger of strong lions

Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, [and] they wander around {for lack of food}?

"Do you give power to the horse? Do you clothe its neck [with] a mane?

From there it spies out [the] prey; its eyes look from far away.

Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all [the] proud, and humble them.

Look, its strength [is] in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach.

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.