Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:

Or with rulers possessing, gold, - Who had filled their houses with silver:

Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:

It stood still, but I could not distinguish its appearance, I looked, but there was no form before mine eyes, - A whispering voice, I heard: - -

Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow:

A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:

Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?

For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!

That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is, - -Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.

But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass's colt, is born a man!

I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:

That, with a stylus of iron and with lead, for all time - in the rock, they could be graven!

Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill-clad, hast thou stripped off:

Wilt thou say then, What doth GOD know? Out through a thick cloud, can he judge?

Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent-beds, fine gold:

But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;

Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;

Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?

Though there is, for silver, a vein, and a place for the gold they refine;

The place of sapphires, are the stones thereof, and it hath, nuggets of gold: -

Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, neither can silver he weighed as the value thereof;

It cannot be put into the scales against the gold of Ophir, with costly onyx, or sapphire;

Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can, the exchange thereof, be a vessel of pure gold,

The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, Against purest gold, can it not be weighed.

When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;

There are turned upon me terrors, - Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.

A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, - How then could I gaze upon a virgin?

What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?

For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.

If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence!

Yea, unto you, gave I diligent heed, - But lo! there was, for Job, nothing to convince, nor could you of you answer his speeches.

Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more.

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!

Out of a chamber cometh a storm-wind, and, out of the north, cold.

Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;

Canst thou got to know of GOD'S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?

Canst thou get to know concerning the poisings of the thick cloud, the wonders of one who is perfect in knowledge?

When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;

Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?

Who hath put - into cloud-forms - wisdom? Or who hath given - to the meteor - understanding?

When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?

Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know.

Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house, - and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him, - and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a ring of gold.