When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

"If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together [with it] in [the] balances,

At least I could still take comfort and rejoice in unceasing anguish, for I didn't conceal what the Holy One has to say.

If one wanted to take Him to court,
he could not answer God once in a thousand times.

{If} he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?'

For though I were righteous, I could not answer.
I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge.

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.

“Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect,
And you would be steadfast and not fear.

Would it go well if He examined you?
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

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

"{O that} my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!

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

His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness.

Who said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them?

If only I knew how to find Him,
so that I could go to His throne.

“There the righteous and upright could reason with Him;
So I would be acquitted forever by my Judge.

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?

If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,

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

If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it;
they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

“I have made a covenant (agreement) with my eyes;
How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?

what could I do when God stands up to judge?
How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

But when he saw that the three men could not answer Job, he became angry.

“I even paid close attention to [what] you [said],
Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him],
Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.

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

"You spoke clearly so I could hear; I've heard what you've said:

His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn't be seen, are visible.

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

Could one who hates justice govern the world?
Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,

Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

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.

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.