Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.

"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,

to set [the] lowly on high, and [those] mourning are lifted to safety.

[Those] who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked {will be no more}."

For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.

{Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.

[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.

Both [the] gray-haired and [the] old [are] among us-- {those older than your father}.

for [the] company of [the] godless [is] barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'

Do you not ask [those] traveling [the] roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts?

[Those] who said to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can Shaddai do to us?'

"Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and [why] do not [those who] know him see his days?

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell}; [those] who are forgotten {by travelers}, they dangle, they sway [far away] from human beings.

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.

so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare [the] people.

{Those who have sense} say to me, and [the] wise man hearing me [says]:

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.