But Job answered and said,

Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

Because the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
My spirit drinks their poison;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow.

But they that fear the hoarfrost, the snow shall fall upon them.

But then the snow melts, and they disappear; when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds.

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid.

How forceful are right words! but what does your arguing prove?

“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?

But ye will cause the orphans to fall, and ye will dig for your friend.

But now, please look at me;
would I lie to your face?

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

Remember that my life is but a breath.
My eye will never again see anything good.

The eye of [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}.

Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.

But then you scared me with dreams; you terrified me with visions.

I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

But if you earnestly seek God
and ask the Almighty for mercy,

Your beginning may be small, but later years will be very great.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

But if it be taken out of its place, every man denieth it, saying, 'I know thee not.'

They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?

Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.

He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him.

For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

He will not permit me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

If {it is a matter of} strength, look, [he is] mighty. But if {it is a matter of} justice, who can summon me?

Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’

"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.

But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.

"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?

"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.

I wish I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as one dying.

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?

"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.

{Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:

What is he, but he knoweth that the hand of the LORD made all these?

“But [only] with Him are [perfect] wisdom and might;
He [alone] has [true] counsel and understanding.

He makes nations great, and then destroys them; he enlarges nations, but then sends them away to captivity.

But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God.

But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him.

"Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?

but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep.

If thou wouldest but call me, I should obey thee: only despise not the work of thine own hands.

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

Thou hast sealed up mine offenses, as it were in a bag: but be merciful unto my wickedness.

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

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

But you even undermine the fear of God
and hinder meditation before Him.

But thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue.

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?

What wise men have [freely] told,
And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,

He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones.

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would relieve your grief.

"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?

But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.

“But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me].

He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

But [the] righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands} increases in strength.

But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!