{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

At the time this one was speaking, {another} came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

In time they dry up, they disappear; when it [is] hot, they vanish from their place.

The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.

If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

It will be paid in full {before his time}, and his branch will not flourish.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

who were snatched away {before their time}, whose foundation was washed away [by] a current?

Indeed, he has not yet appointed [a time] for man to go to God in the judgment.

which I have reserved for [the] time of trouble, for [the] day of battle and war?

Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?

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

Can you number [the] months they fulfill, and do you know [the] time of its giving birth?