It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude is over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;

Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.

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.

If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”