Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.

Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.

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.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry.

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.

I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

Truly, God does all these things to man, twice and three times,

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

Will anyone take him when he is on the watch, or put metal teeth through his nose?

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?

Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled: