"{As God lives}, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.

That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep him from pride;

Then He declares to them [the true character of] their deeds
And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly [with presumption and notions of self-sufficiency].

"Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness.

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him."

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

{so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.

Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him.

Am I able to help my self? Is not my strength gone from me,

If I will justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I will put forth my self for a perfect man, he shall prove me a wicked doer.

Yea, the Almighty his own self shall be thine harvest, and the heap of thy money.

Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

The one who made me in the womb made them, too, didn't he? Didn't the same one prepare each of us in the womb?"

But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

“He is the first [in magnitude and power] of the works of God;
[Only] He who made him can bring near His sword [to master him].