{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

"Call now, is there [anyone] answering you? And to which of [the] holy ones will you turn?

which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow.

If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,

And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve [a mark] on the soles of my feet.

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

Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away [the] soil of [the] earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.

Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?

what wise men have told, and they have not hidden [that which is] from their ancestors,

{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him to the king of terrors.

For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where [are] {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'

I want to know [the] words [with which] he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me.

"I will teach you about God's hand; I will not conceal that [which is] with Shaddai.

His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, [which] are invisible, are bared.

Remember that you should extol his work, [of] which people have sung.

which [the] clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.

He covers [his] hands [with] lightning, and he commands it the place at [which] to strike.

which I have reserved for [the] time of trouble, for [the] day of battle and war?

[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.