Who does great things, [beyond understanding,] unfathomable,
Yes, marvelous and wondrous things without number.

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;
The wishes of my heart [are broken].

“He breaks mighty men without inquiry,
And sets others in their place.

Forgetting that a foot may crush them,
Or that the wild beast may trample them.

“No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan;
Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]?

“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?]”