{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}.

And then [there] was one day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

who rejoice {exceedingly}, [and] they are glad when they find [the] grave?

From [the] scourge of [the] tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'

When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.

Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?

For he knows {those who are worthless}; {when he sees} iniquity, {he will not consider it}.

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.

Little boys also despise me; [when] I rise, then they talk against me.

{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

for what {does he care for} his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

When he is brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb.

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

When they are humiliated, {you say}, '[It is] pride,' for he saves {the humble}.

"When I go forward, {he is not there}, or backward, I cannot see him.

{When he works} [on the] left, {I cannot perceive} [him]; he turns to [the] right, but I cannot see [him].

Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; [when] I consider, I tremble because of him.

for what [is the] hope of [the] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?

Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him?

{When he gave} weight to the wind and he apportioned [the] waters by measure,

{when he made} a rule for the rain and a way for [the] thunder's lightning bolt,

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding [was] over my {house},

when Shaddai[was] still with me, my children [were] all around me,

when my paths were washed in sour milk, and [the] rock poured out streams of oil for me.

"When [the] ear heard and commended me, and [the] eye saw and testified in support of me

I smiled for them [when] they had no confidence [in anything], and they did not extinguish the light of my face.

"Surely someone must not send a hand against [the] needy when, in his misfortune, [there is] a cry of help for them.

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?

if I looked at [the] sun when it shone or [at the] moon moving [in] splendor,

"If I have rejoiced at [the] ruin of [the one who] hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him--

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, {he became angry}.

"In a dream, a vision of [the] night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on [their] bed,

Indeed, he says, 'A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.'

"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?

{How much less} [when] you say [that] you do not see him, that [the] case [is] {before him}, and you are waiting for him!

And [the] godless of heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

After it, his voice roars; it thunders {with his majestic voice}, and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard.

[You] whose garments [are] hot, when [the] earth is being still because of [the] south wind,

So then, they do not look at the light [when it is] bright in the skies, when [the] wind has passed and has cleansed them.

when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

"Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb,

when they are crouched in the dens, [when] they lie in the thicket in an ambush?

Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, [and] they wander around {for lack of food}?

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

When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.

When it spreads its wings {aloft}, it laughs at the horse and its rider.

[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

{When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.