"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

{Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case?

Have you listened in God's confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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

By God's breath, ice is given, and [the] broad waters [are] frozen.

"Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.

"It [is] the first of God's actions; the [one who] made him furnishes [it with] his sword.

"I will teach you about God's hand; I will not conceal that [which is] with Shaddai.

as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding [was] over my {house},