“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?

After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

Their children's children live in their sight, and their generation before their eyes.

Make sure that you remain wary of God's sword, for God's wrath brings with it the sword of punishment, by which you'll know there's a judgment."

How much less is man, who is only a maggot, or a man's children, who are only worms!"

He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

“Who among all these does not recognize [in all these things that good and evil are randomly scattered throughout nature and human life]
That the hand of the Lord has done this,

“For you have said, ‘My teaching (doctrine) [that God knowingly afflicts the righteous] is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

The tents of robbers are safe,
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.

“I will teach you regarding the hand (power) of God;
I will not conceal what is with the Almighty [God’s actual treatment of the wicked].

“If there is an angel as a mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To explain to a man what is right for him [that is, how to be in right standing with God],

Gold is brought out of the North, but the praise and honour of God's fear cometh from God himself.

"Be patient with me a moment longer, and I'll show you that there's more to say on God's behalf.