and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said, 'Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'

To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.

And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?

If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.

Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

The deep hath said, 'It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, 'It is not with me.'

Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'

When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion -- even I.

And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.

Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it?