What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

And Job made answer and said,

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
And the [vast starry] spaces of the south;

If he came by me, I might not look upon him: if he went his way, I should not perceive it.

“They pass by like the [swift] boats made of reeds,
Like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

then You dip me in a pit of mud,
and my own clothes despise me!

For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

“Let Him take His rod away from me,
And let not the dread and fear of Him terrify me.

Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?

Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do?

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

But, {O that} God might speak, and [that] he would open his lips to you,

that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

And Job made answer and said,

“But I have intelligence and understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these [of God’s wisdom and might]?

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

Who among all of these doesn't know that the LORD's hand made them,

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.

“With Him are might and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader are His [and in His power].

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.

“Oh, that you would be completely silent,
And that silence would be your wisdom!

Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;
your defenses are made of clay.

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

If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.

If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!

What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

And Job made answer and said,

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

"He tore me apart when I was at ease; grabbing me by my neck, he shook me to pieces then he really made me his target.

He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.

I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

They turned night into day
and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

Terrors made him afraid round about, and scattered him to his feet.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape.

And Job made answer and said,

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

His men of war came together, which made their way over me, and besieged my dwelling round about.

If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

[That] with a pen of iron and [with] lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

Then Job made answer and said,

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

Then Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein:

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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

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

When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

And Job made answer and said,

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

That I might know, what answer he would give me: and that I might understand, what he would say unto me.

Would he, with fulness of might, contend with me? Nay, surely, he, would give heed to me!

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;

"Why aren't times made known by Shaddai? Why do not those who know him see his days?

They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

"Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights.

Then Job made answer and said,

What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.

Before whom hast thou spoken those words? Who made the breath to come out of the mouth?

By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.