The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

For now ye were not: ye shall see the terror and be afraid.

How forcible were words of uprightness! and what will reproving from you prove?

So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.

My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.

If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Then, even if your beginnings were modest,
your final days will be full of prosperity.

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.

His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.

If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.

He commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: he closeth up the stars, as it were under a signet.

By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

“Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him;
Were He to move past me, I would not perceive Him.

“Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

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

"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.

If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.

Though I were blameless, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

My days were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good.

If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,

If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.

“Then I would speak [my defense] and not fear Him;
But I am not like that in myself.

Were eyes of flesh to thee? or wilt thou see as man saw?

Hast thou not turned me, as it were milk: and turned me to cruddes like cheese?

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

"But what if God were to speak? What if he were to talk with you,

He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.

“Why do You hide Your face [as if offended]
And consider me Your enemy?

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

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

Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?

Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes.

For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying.

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

My spirit being destroyed my days were extinct; the graves are for me.

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

My days passed away, my purposes were broken; the possessions of my heart

"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

Wherefore were we reckoned as cattle, and were unclean in your eyes?

They that come after him shall be astounded at his day, as they that went before were frightened.

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

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.

His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

He hath put my brethren far away from me, and such as were of mine acquaintance, are become strangers unto me.

All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.

“Why do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished in my bosom.

His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.

The increase of his house shall be rolled off; they were poured out in the day of his anger.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'

For what his delight in his house after him, and the number of? his months were divided out?

His sides were filled with fat, and the marrow of his bones will, be moistened.

The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.

To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.

Is not God high in the heavens? and see the head of the stars for they were lifted up.

Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:

They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

If our adversaries were not destroyed, and their remnant the fire shall devour.

For they were humbled, and thou wilt say, A lifting up; and he will save him depressed of eyes.

Wherefore were not times hidden from the Almighty,? and they knowing him saw not his days.

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

"The ungodly is very swift: O that his portion also upon earth were swifter than the running water, which suffereth not the shipman to behold the fair and pleasant vineyards.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

Behold even to the moon, and it shall not shine; and the stars were not clean in his eyes.

By his breath {the heavens were made clear}; his hand pierced [the] fleeing snake.

There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried;

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

As I was in the prime of my days,
When the friendship and counsel of God were over my tent,

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

when my paths were washed in sour milk, and [the] rock poured out streams of oil for me.

[The] voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.

because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them.

Those who were about to die blessed me, and I made widows sing for joy.

I clothed myself in righteousness,
and it enveloped me;
my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

My roots [were] open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.