and he saith, 'Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'

That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.

Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness is in it.

I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.

And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this is with Thee.

If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.

On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

Light he is on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

Is their any number to His troops? And on whom ariseth not His light?

A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden thing bringeth out to light.

In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.

I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.

When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles,

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

To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.

Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.

My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light is over the skirts of the earth.

Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it is in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.

And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

Where is this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this -- its place?

Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes are as the eyelids of the dawn.