And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Hast thou applied thy heart unto my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, one revering God and avoiding evil?

And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Hast thou applied thy heart unto my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, one who revereth God, and avoideth evil; and still he is holding fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

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

For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.

My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food.

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

Didst thou not, like milk, pour me forth? and, as cheese, curdle me?

When it is lifted up, like a howling lion, thou dost hunt me, Then again thou dost shew thyself marvellous against me.

A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.

Above high noon, shall rise life's continuance, Darkness, like a morning, shall appear,

I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.

Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,

How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity.

Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:

He shall wrong - like a vine - his sour grapes, and shall cast off - as an olive-tree - his blossom.

I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.

Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away - like a tree - my hope;

Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;

Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.

In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

They send forth - like a flock - their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy;

With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.

Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.

They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.

Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing,

He hath built, like a moth, his house, - like a hut, which a watcher hath made.

There shall reach him - like waters - terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;

Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice;

Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:

Most effectually, is my skin disfigured, - Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about:

He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,

The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.

Lo! my bosom, is like wine not opened, Like new wine-skins, it will burst.

Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!

What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;

Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.

Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?

Gird, I pray thee - like a strong man - thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:

It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;

Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!

Couldst thou cause him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his snort, is a terror!

But if, an arm like GOD, thou hast, and, with a voice like his, thou canst thunder,

Behold, I pray thee, the Hippopotamus, which I made with thee, Grass - like the ox, he eateth;

He bendeth down his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his thighs, are twisted together;

His bones, are barrels of bronze, his frame, is like hammered bars of iron:

His sneezings, flash forth light, and, his eyes, are like the eyelashes of the dawn;

Out of his nostrils, proceedeth smoke, like a blown pot and rushes;

His heart, is hardened like a stone, yea hardened, like the nether millstone;

He causeth to boil, as a cauldron, the raging deep, the sea, he maketh like a brewing vessel:

There is not - upon the dust - his like, that hath been made to be without fear;

And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

Now, therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go unto my servant Job, and ye shall offer up an ascending-sacrifice in your own behalf, and, Job my servant, shall pray over you, - for, him, will I accept, that I may not deal out to you disgrace, because ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.