Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; {then} he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

"Look, we have searched this out--it [is] true; hear it and know [it] {yourself}."

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;

"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler.

because I dreaded [the] great multitude, and [the] contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of [the] doorway?

"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.

"Do you know [the] time when [the] goats of [the] rocks give birth? Do you observe [the] doe deer's giving birth?

Under [the] lotus tree it lies, in [the] hiding place of [the] reeds and [in the] marsh.

"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?