know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me [with] his net.

Little boys also despise me; [when] I rise, then they talk against me.

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Then Job answered and said,

Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.

'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? [Then] let him repay [it] to him that he may know.

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

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

then Shaddai will be your gold ore and {your precious silver}.

Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and {you will expect that God will be good to you}.

Then Job answered and said,

[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.

Yet he carries off [the] tyrants by his strength; [if] he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life.

They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.

"And if [it is] not [so], then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and {said},

Then Job answered and said,

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

Black corals and crystal will not be mentioned, and wisdom's price [is] more than red corals.

then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it.

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?

[then] let my shoulder blade fall from [my] shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he [was] righteous in his [own] eyes.

So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}. {He became angry} at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak} because {they were older than he}.

Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up} and said, "{I am young}, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you.

"Look, [in] this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

then he opens [the] ear of men, and {he frightens them with a warning}

He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

who {shows no partiality to officials} and [who] {does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant}, for all of them [are] the work of his hands?

"Look at [the] heavens, and see; and observe [the] clouds [that] are higher than you.

[who] teaches us more than [the] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

Then Elihu continued and said,

then he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

Then [the] animal goes into [its] den, and it remains in its den.

So then, they do not look at the light [when it is] bright in the skies, when [the] wind has passed and has cleansed them.

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place,

You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days [is] great.

Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light is distributed, [where] he scatters [the] east wind upon [the] earth?

Then Yahweh answered Job and said,

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

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

Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

'Hear and I will speak; I will question you, then inform me.'

{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].

{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]."

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all [those who] had known him {before} came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one [gave to him] one ornamental ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

Then Job died old and full of days.

Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his fury he terrifies them:

So then, O kings, be wise. Be warned, O rulers of [the] earth.

You have put gladness in my heart more than {when} their grain and their wine abound.

He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in [the] trap he has made.

And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and [with] glory and [with] majesty you crowned him.

Then the earth shook and quaked, and [the] foundations of [the] mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry.

Then the channels of [the] sea became visible, and [the] foundations of [the] world were uncovered by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the {blast} of the wind of your nose.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from [those who] hated me because they were stronger than I.

And you {made my enemies turn their backs}, then I destroyed those [who] hated me.

who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than [those who] rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence.

more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey [in the] comb.

Also, keep back your servant from arrogant [sins]; let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me.

To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to [the] pit.

Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh; it will rejoice in his salvation.

All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who [is] like you, who delivers [the] poor from [one] stronger than he and [the] poor and needy from [the one who] robs him?"

Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness, [and] your praise all day.

Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

[The] little belonging to the righteous [is] better than [the] wealth of many wicked.

Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.

My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue,

Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh.

Then I said, "Look, I come. In [the] scroll of [the] book it is written concerning me:

For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, {my surpassing joy}, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.

When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

[Then] I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.

Then you will delight [in] righteous sacrifices, burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then bulls will be offered on your altar.

You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah

The {buttery words} of his mouth were smooth, but [there was] battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they [were] drawn swords.

Then my enemies will turn back {when} I call. This I know because God [is] for me.

As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.

From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock [that is] higher than I.

Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.

Because your loyal love [is] better than life, my lips will praise you.

And then all men will fear, and will declare the working of God, and will understand his doing.

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

For Yahweh it will be better than an ox [or] bull, horned [and] hoofed.

until I went into the sanctuary of God. [Then] I understood their fate.

then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.

Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds like [the] sand of [the] seas.

When he killed [some of] them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

Then the Lord awoke like [one who had been] asleep, [awoke] like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.

Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture, we will give thanks to you forever. {Generation after generation} we will tell of your praise.