In time they dry up, they disappear; when it [is] hot, they vanish from their place.

Is it because I have said, 'Give to me,' or, 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'?

or, 'Save me from the foe's hand,' or, 'Ransom me from the tyrants' hand'?

I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

Will they themselves not teach you [and] {tell you} and {utter} words from their heart?

If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, [saying], 'I have never seen you.'

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

[He is the one] who shakes [the] earth from its place, and its pillars tremble.

whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.

May he remove his rod from me, and let his dread not terrify me;

because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?

So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

[Are] not my days few? Let him leave [me] alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.

"Only you must not do [these] two [things] to me; then I will not hide from your face:

withdraw your hand from me, and let not your dread terrify me.

"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!

Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.

[As] water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,

"But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.

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

{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.

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

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?

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

His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head.

"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

"Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being on earth,

His children will seek favors from [the] poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.

"He will flee from an iron weapon, [but] an arrow of bronze will pierce him.

He draws [it] forth, and it comes out from [his] body, and [the] glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him.

This [is] a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."

And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.

Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,

Indeed, [the] wicked is spared from [the] day of disaster; he is delivered from [the] day of wrath.

"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked.

You have given no water [for the] weary to drink, and you withheld food from [the] hungry.

[Those] who said to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can Shaddai do to us?'

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; [if] you remove wickedness from your tent,

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

They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge.

"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.

From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.

{With whose help} have you uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you?

Far be it from me that {I would say that you are right}; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

"This [is the] portion of [the] wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai [the] inheritance of [the] ruthless.

[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper [from] ore.

He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell}; [those] who are forgotten {by travelers}, they dangle, they sway [far away] from human beings.

[As for the] earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as [by] fire.

He dams up rivers from [their] sources, and he brings secret things to [the] light.

"But from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

Indeed, from where does wisdom come? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

It is hidden from [the] eyes of all living, and it is concealed from [the] birds of the heaven.

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

Officials refrained from talking, and they laid [their] hand on their mouth.

And I broke [the] evil one's jaw bones, and I made [his] prey drop from his teeth.

They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as [at] a thief,

{A senseless crowd}, yes, {a disreputable brood}, they were cast out from the land.

They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face

And what [is] the portion of God from above or the heritage of Shaddai from on high?

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

"If I have withheld [the] desire of [the] poor from [them], or I have caused [the] widow's eyes to fail,

or I have eaten my morsel {alone}, and [the] orphan has not eaten from it

(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),

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

Indeed, the disaster from God [was] a dread for me, and {I was powerless} because of his majesty.

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,

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

to turn human beings aside [from their] deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

He spares his life from [the] pit and his life from passing over the river [of death].

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

{so that} he is gracious [to] him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into [the] pit; I have found a ransom.'

He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so {I will enjoy the light}.'

to bring his life back from [the] pit {so that he may enjoy the light of life}.

"Therefore, listen to me, {people who have sense}: far be it from God {that he should commit wickedness} and that Shaddai {should do wrong}.

because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways,

so that [they] cause [the] cry of distress from [the] helpless to come to him, and he hears [the] cry of distress from [the] needy,

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker,

He does not withdraw his eyes from [the] righteous, but he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted.

So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.

All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar.

"About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place.

Listen carefully to his voice's thunder and [the] rumbling [that] goes out from his mouth.

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.