for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him."

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

[That] with a pen of iron and [with] lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

{At night I am in great pain}; my pains do not take a rest.

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

{Have the people of my tent not said}, '{O that} someone had not been satisfied with his meat'?

"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even [with] the strife of his bones continually,

Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].