And it happened {one day} {that} the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst.

And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

He said,

“Naked (without possessions) I came [into this world] from my mother’s womb,
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

{And then} one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.

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.

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come into it.

Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

and become darkened because of ice,
and the snow melts into them.

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

Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:

A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

nor turneth again into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the {power} of their transgression.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not he, who then is it?

then you plunge me into the [slime] pit, and my clothes abhor me.

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

That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;

Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?

yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

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.

“If God passes by or arrests,
Or calls an assembly [of judgment], who can restrain Him?
[If He is against a man, who can call Him to account for it?]

The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.

With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

He leadeth away the priests into captivity, and turneth the mighty upside down.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death;

Who giveth greatness to nations, or destroyeth them, Who spreadeth out nations, or leadeth them into exile:

Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

"Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.

And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

I sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust.

But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds:

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?

He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.

They push the needy off the road;
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

In the dark they break into houses;
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.

They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

An end, hath one set to the darkness, and, into every extremity, is, he, making search, for the stone of darkness and death-shade;

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,
[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;
They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

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

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

I was a father to the needy; I diligently inquired into the case of those I didn't know.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

From want and famine they are gaunt; fleeing of late into the wilderness, desolate and waste.

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my flute into the voice of them that weep.

A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

He keeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from passing over into Sheol.

{so that} he is gracious [to] him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into [the] pit; I have found a ransom.'

He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.

He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

For he will not lay upon man more than what is right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

And what's more, he allured you {out of distress} [into] a broad place, [where] in place of it [was] no constraint; and [what] was set on your table is full of fatness.

Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.

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

Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.

And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.

“The earth is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed;
And the things [of the earth] stand out like a [multi-colored] garment.

"Have you entered into [the] sea's sources? Or have you walked around in [the] recesses of the deep?

Have you entered into [the] storehouses of [the] snow, or have you seen [the] storehouses of [the] hail,

"Who divideth the abundance of waters into rivers, or who maketh a way for the stormy weather,

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

In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

Will you believe him, that he will bring home your grain, and gather it into your barn?

He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength;
He charges into battle.