Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.

It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?

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

Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.

Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

What is a mortal, that thou shouldst nurture him? Or that thou shouldst fix upon him thy mind?

And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.

So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.

If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.

Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

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

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."

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

Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.

The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.

How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Sealed up in a bag is my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.

What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

that thy mind is so puffed up against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

“They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,
And their mind prepares deception.”

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly.

His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity.

My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.

My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

If not -- mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.

Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

"How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?

And be it that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

"For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there.

The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind, - With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -

And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth it.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

“Surely there is a mine for silver
And a place where they refine gold.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

“[As for] the earth, out of it comes food,
But underneath [its surface, down deep] it is turned over as fire.

“Man dams up the streams from flowing [so that they do not trickle into the mine],
And what is hidden he brings out to the light.

Mine honour, shall be young again with me, and, my bow, in my hand, be renewed.

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

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;

He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

Therefore is my mind poured full of heaviness, and the days of trouble have taken hold upon me.

At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

Thou art become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me.

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, - and let GOD take note of mine integrity!

If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

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

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand?

Have I ever rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy? Or was I ever glad, that any harm happened to him? Oh no.

Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'

If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Every man, no doubt, hath a mind; but it is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding.