While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,

And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.

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.