So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow:

By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.

As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.

Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:

If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him saying - I have not seen thee.

Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,

That thou shouldst seek for mine iniquity, and, for my sin, shouldst make search:

Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

Lo! all this , hath mine own eye seen, - Mine ear hath heard and understood it:

How many are mine iniquities and sins? My transgression and my sin, let me know!

Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?

For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:

I will tell thee - hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.

That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend!

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

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

Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine-presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;

Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth-born who is a worm?

Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?

Among the rocks, hath he cut open streams, and, every precious thing, hath his eye seen:

And said to the son of earth, Lo! the reverence of the Lord, that, is wisdom, and, to avoid evil, is understanding.

In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose - in the convocation, I cried out for help;

If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;

Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:

Then was kindled the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite of the family of Ram, - against Job, was kindled his anger, because he justified his own soul rather than God;

So then Elihu, son of Barachel, the Buzite, responded and said: - Young, am I, whereas, ye, are aged, For this cause, I faltered, and feared - to shew my knowledge unto you:

Let me be partial to no man, and, unto no son of earth, give flattering titles,

Surely I know not how to give flattering titles, How soon might my Maker take me away!

To turn a son of earth from his deed, while yet, pride, from man he concealeth:

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

For, what any son of earth doeth, he repayeth him, and, according to every man's course, he causeth him to find.

For he addeth - unto his sin - rebellion, In our midst, he clappeth his hands, and multiplieth his sayings against GOD.

For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

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

Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.

For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards, - Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains.

Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?

To give rain over the no-man's land, the desert, where no son of earth is;

By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee.