But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry;

“For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

Though it be given him to be in safety, he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places.

Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.

How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Sheol is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

let him weigh me in [the] balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.

Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

“For tragedy from God is a terror to me,
And because of His majesty and exaltation I can do nothing [nor endure facing Him].

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

I never suffered my mouth to do such a sin, as to wish him evil.

I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him.

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.

And Elihu waited for Job in words, for they were old for days above him.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives him understanding.

“I even paid close attention to [what] you [said],
Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him],
Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

I have a good hope for my part to shape him an answer, and to show him my meaning.

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.

Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?

that it is he, which withdraweth man from evil, delivereth him from pride,

He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction],
And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

"He chasteneth him with sickness, and bringeth him to his bed: he layeth sore punishment upon his bones,

So that his life makes him loathe food,
And his soul [loathe] even his favorite dishes.

If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:

Then He doth favour him and saith, 'Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'

Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,
Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;

He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

in order to turn him back from the Pit,
so he may shine with the light of life.

For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.

For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

Who gave him charge [over the] earth? Or who laid on [him] [the] whole world?

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?

Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile, Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;

How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.

Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides [his] face, and who can behold him? Yet [he is] over a nation and over a person alike,

"Should you not be paid back, since you have rejected him? You do the choosing! I won't! Tell us what you know!

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

For such one never sayeth, 'Where is God that made me? And that shineth upon us, that we might praise him in the night?

But if a man call upon God, doth not he hear him? Doth not the Almighty accept his cry?

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

I will lift up my knowledge from far off, and to him making me, I will give justice.

If they listen and serve [him], they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

yea, wonder at him, and yet they see him but afar off.

"Look, God [is] exalted, and we do not know [him]; the number of his years is unsearchable.

Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea.

His thundering tells about him; [the] livestock also [tell] {concerning what rises}.