Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: -

Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!

That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!

So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare, - That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One.

Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.

Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.

For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.

If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver?

But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:

That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is, - -Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.

But indeed, I, unto the Almighty, would speak, and, to direct my argument unto GOD, would I be well pleased.

Oh that ye would, altogether held your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!

Is it, for God, ye would speak perversely? And, for him, would ye speak deceit:

Even, for him, would ye be partial? Or, for GOD, would ye so plead?

Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

Thou shouldst call, and, I, would answer thee, - For the work of thine own hand, thou shouldst long.

For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.

And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly - into the dust, is the descent!

To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;

Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!

Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;

I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments;

I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me.

Would he, with fulness of might, contend with me? Nay, surely, he, would give heed to me!

The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.

I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.

Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account?

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!

Oh! would I not, upon my shoulder, lift it, or bind it as a crown upon me;

The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.

Lo! occasions of hostility, would he find against me, He counteth me an enemy to him;

All flesh together, would cease to breathe, and, the earth-born, unto dust, would return.

Would that Job might be tested to the uttermost, for replying with the men of iniquity:

If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.

He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover - in oppression - their ear.

Shall it be declared to him - that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?

Who hath removed his outer garment, through his double row of teeth, who would enter?