If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

But then Barachel's son Elihu from Buz, one of Ram's descendants, got really angry. He was furious with Job because he had been declaring himself righteous instead of vindicating God.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.

For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast,

Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

Lo, in this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

His flesh hath been made fresher than a child's, he hath returned to the days of his youth;

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight!

May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

because he has been adding rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and keeps on ranting against God."

Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

He will not withdraw - from a righteous one - his eyes, - but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.

And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.

Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?"

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

Or when they lie down, when they cast their young ones, and when they are delivered of their travail and pain?

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

Lo! any hope of him, hath been found deceptive, Even at the sight of him, shall not one be overwhelmed?

As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

There is not - upon the dust - his like, that hath been made to be without fear;

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

{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].

And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also Jehovah added to Job all that had been his, to double.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity in my hands:

Behold, he labors in pain with iniquity, and he has conceived mischief, and has brought forth falsehood.

O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.

Thou hast seen it ; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

But I have trusted and relied on and been confident in Your lovingkindness and faithfulness;
My heart shall rejoice and delight in Your salvation.

I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me. For the Chief Musician. By David.

The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

There have they been in great dread, because, God, is in the circle of the righteous man.

It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.

I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:

Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:

Now they surround us at our [every] step. They {intend} {to pin} [me] to the ground.

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

As for GOD, blameless is his way, The speech of Yahweh hath been proved, A shield, he is to all who seek refuge in him.

You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

There is no speech, and there are no words. Their voice hath not been heard.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou art my God.

As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Yes, wild dogs surround me -- a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me. For thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

For, thy lovingkindness, hath been before mine eyes, and I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face -- I have been troubled.

I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness, because you notice my pain and you are aware of how distressed I am.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.