While this one was still speaking, {another} came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

Thus Job {spoke up} and said,

or with high officials {who have gold}, who fill up their houses [with] silver.

Your words have raised up [the one who] stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.

[Is] not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not in wisdom.'

for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

You shall come in maturity to [the] grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.

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

which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow.

In time they dry up, they disappear; when it [is] hot, they vanish from their place.

The paths of their way wind [around]; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.

A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

[He is the one] who commands the sun, and it does not rise, {and he seals up the stars}.

When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.

surely then you will lift up your face without blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear.

Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

[As] water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,

"All of the wicked [one's] days he is writhing, even [through] the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.

"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.

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

"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.

His roots dry up {below}, and its branches wither away above.

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

His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.

But I myself know [that] my redeemer [is] alive, and [at the] last he will stand up upon {the earth}.

Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,

He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.

{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

[The] heavens will reveal his guilt, and [the] earth will rise up against him.

'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? [Then] let him repay [it] to him that he may know.

Yet he himself filled up their houses [with] good [things], but [the] schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.

[He] ties up [the] water in its clouds, and [the] cloud is not torn open beneath it.

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep.

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

[As for the] earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as [by] fire.

He dams up rivers from [their] sources, and he brings secret things to [the] light.

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

Young men saw me and stepped aside, and [the] aged rose up [and] stood.

On [the] right hand the brood rises up; {they put me to flight}, and they build up their {siege ramps} against me.

You lift me up to [the] wind--you make me ride [it], and you toss me about [in] the storm.

I go [about] in mourning garb, [but] not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, [and] I cry for help.

So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.

Indeed, that [is] a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.

then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?

(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),

Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up} and said, "{I am young}, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you.

Thus Elihu {spoke up} and said,

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

Moreover, Elihu {spoke up} and said,

"And if [they] are tied up with fetters, [if] they are caught in [the] cords of misery,

Indeed, he draws up [the] drops of water; he distills [the] rain into its mist,

"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.

and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?

Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

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