But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

They were banished from the community -- people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves --

“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

I shall cry to thee and thou wilt not answer me: I stood up and thou wilt not attend to me.

Thou wilt turn to be cruel to me: with the strength of thy hand thou wilt lie in wait for me.

Thou wilt lift me up to the wind; thou wilt cause me to ride, and thou wilt melt to me counsel.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.

I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.

For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

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

For that would be a disgrace;
it would be a crime deserving punishment.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,

This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.

because I greatly feared the crowds,
and the contempt of the clans terrified me,
so I grew silent and would not go outside?

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused [the] breath of its owners to die,

So these three men would strive no more with Job, because he held himself a righteous man.

And Elihu waited for Job in words, for they were old for days above him.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

It is not only the old who are wise
or the elderly who understand how to judge.

That ye may not say, We have found out wisdom; God will make him yield, not man.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

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

But if you have something to say, answer me;
speak, for I would like to justify you.

Although I am right, I am accounted a liar.
My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

He won't examine mankind further, that they would go before God to judgment.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

So that godless men would not rule
Nor be snares of the people.

Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add.

Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.

Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

For thou wilt say, What shall it profit to thee? what shall I profit from my sin?

If thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do against him? and thy transgressions were multiplied, what wilt thou do to him?

If thou wert just, what wilt thou give to him? or what shall he take from thy hand?

who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

How much less when thou sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must wait for him.

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.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.

Wilt thou spread out with him to the clouds, strong as the sight of a melted mass?

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Wilt thou consider even to the breadth of the earth? Announce if thou knewest all of it

“You [must] know, since you were born then,
And because you are so extremely old!

To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?

Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion?

Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them?

Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth?

Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Wilt thou number the months they shall fill up? and didst thou know the time of their bringing forth?

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

Wilt thou give strength to the horse? wilt thou clothe his neck with thunder?

Wilt thou cause him to tremble as the locust? the glory of his snorting is terror.

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Let him who disputes with God answer it.”

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

And if an arm to thee as God? and with thy voice wilt thou thunder as he?

“Surely the mountains bring him food,
And all the wild animals play there.

Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?

Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike?

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?

"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.

[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

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

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

I knew that thou wilt be able to do all, and counsel shall not be restrained from thee.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

I cry aloud to the Lord,
and He answers me from His holy mountain.Selah

In peace, will I lay me down and at once sleep; for, thou, Yahweh alone, wilt cause me, in security, to dwell.

O Jehovah, the morning thou wilt hear my voice; the morning I will set in order to thee, and I will look about.

Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.

For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

To the overseer upon the stringed instruments upon the octave, chanting of David. O Jehovah, not in thine anger wilt thou correct me, and not in thy wrath wilt thou chastise me.

My soul also is sore troubled; but LORD, how long wilt thou punish me?

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.

But, for himself, hath he made ready the weapons so deadly, His arrows, he, so fiery, would make:

What is man that thou wilt remember him? and the son of man that thou wilt review him?

And thou wilt diminish him a little more than the messengers, and thou wilt surround him with glory and honor.