{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}.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?

Is it because I have said, 'Give to me,' or, 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'?

Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

He [is] {thriving} {before} the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.

His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone.

Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of [the] wicked?

"{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may].

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.

[The] upright are appalled at this, and [the] innocent excites himself over [the] godless.

[Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

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

and [if you] put gold ore in [the] dust, and [the] gold of Ophir in [the] rock of wadis,

He stretches out [the] north over emptiness; [he] hangs [the] earth {over nothing}.

[He] covers [the] face of [the] full moon; [he] spreads his cloud over it.

It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

{Proud wild animals} have not trodden it; [the] lion in its prime has not prowled over it.

It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire.

"{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},

Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?

let my wife grind for another, and let other [men] kneel over her,

He spares his life from [the] pit and his life from passing over the river [of death].

Who gave him charge [over the] earth? Or who laid on [him] [the] whole world?

but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides [his] face, and who can behold him? Yet [he is] over a nation and over a person alike,

All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar.

"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

Can you trust it because its strength [is] great, or will you hand your labor over to it?

With roar and rage {it races over the ground}, and it cannot stand still at [the] sound of [the] horn.

Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen?

"Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.

It observes all [the] lofty; it [is] king {over all that are proud}."

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."