Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him} {on every side}? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land.

Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.

[Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?

because the dread that I {feel} has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.

I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come."

But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified.

"{Think} now, who has perished [who is] innocent? Or where [are] the upright destroyed?

[He is] wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

You have granted me life and loyal love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

and [that] he would tell you [the] secrets of wisdom, for {insight has many sides}. And know that God {on your behalf} has forgotten {some of} your guilt.

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh's hand has done this?

"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

"Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon [his] loins,

"Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company.

Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

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 he has made me a proverb for [the] peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

But [the] righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands} increases in strength.

know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me [with] his net.

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head.

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.

"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.

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

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

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

Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, {he lets nothing escape that he desires}.

{There is nothing left after he has eaten}; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him [for what] he has done?

{Surely} our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.

My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.

Indeed, God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me.

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

How you have advised {one who has no wisdom}! And [what] sound wisdom you have made known {in abundance}!

{With whose help} have you uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you?

{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.

"{As God lives}, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.

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

Its stones [are the] place of sapphire, and [the] earthen dirt {has} gold.

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

{Proud wild animals} have not trodden it; [the] lion in its prime has not prowled over it.

because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me, and they have thrown off restraint {in my presence}.

He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.

"If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

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

or I have eaten my morsel {alone}, and [the] orphan has not eaten from it

if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,

An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler.

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me.

for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.

Indeed, he has not yet appointed [a time] for man to go to God in the judgment.

for truly my words [are] not falsehood; [one who has] perfect knowledge [is] with you.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, 'You have done wrong'?

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

And {they} turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on [the] face of {the habitable world}.

So then, they do not look at the light [when it is] bright in the skies, when [the] wind has passed and has cleansed them.

"Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for [the] {thunder bolts},

Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster?

"Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,

Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.

Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.

Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

"{On the ground it has no equal}-- a creature without fear.

By the ear's hearing I heard [of] you, but now my eye has seen you.

{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].

{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]."