Let those who curse the day curse it -- those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

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

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) -- a fate for those whose feet slip!

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

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

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'

Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts --

"Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

"The dead tremble -- those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.