What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire?

The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake.

And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.

Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?

If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!

I, shall be held guilty, - Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?

Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

Should, the multitude of words, not be answered? Or should, a man full of talk, be justified?

Oh that ye would, altogether held your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!

Who is it that shall contend with me? For, now, if I should hold my peace, why! I should breathe my last!

Though there is - for a tree - hope, - if it should be cut down, that, again, it will grow, and, the tender branch thereof, will not cease;

If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?

What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?

I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

Surely ye should say - Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.

Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?

How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, in them treachery?

There an upright man, might reason with him, so should I deliver myself completely from my judge.

Far be it from me! that I should justify, you, - Even until I breathe my last, will I not let go mine integrity from me:

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

I said, Days, should speak, - and, the multitude of years, should make known wisdom.

Lo! I waited for your words, I kept giving ear for your reasons, until ye should search out what to say;

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man.

Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me, - Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!

If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.

Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said - that they should turn from iniquity.

If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.

Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.

Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.

Yea he might even have allured thee - out of the mouth of straitness, into a wide space - no narrowness there, - and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.

That thy garments should be hot when he quieteth the earth from the south?