His sons used to go [in turn] and feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send word and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

{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}.

along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins,

Nor shall see me - the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.

Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them.

He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;

He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.

If you really want to appear superior to me
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

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

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

Then He saw wisdom and declared it;
He established it and searched it out.

Oh that it were with me as in the months of old, as in the days, when, GOD, used to watch over me;

when his lamp used to shine over my head, so I could walk through the dark,

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;

"I used to say: "I will die in my home. I'm going to live as many days as there are grains of sand on the shore.

After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;

Moreover, {what use to me is the strength of their hands}? With them, vigor is destroyed.

In want and hunger, they were lean, - who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!

Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;

Among the bushes, used they to shriek, Under the bramble, were they huddled together:

Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.

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

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;

If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

He uses them to judge some people and give food to many.

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth their young among the stony rocks? Or layest thou wait when the hinds use to fawn?