Is it with a man, that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit be then in sore trouble?

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.

For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where [are] {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'

Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to 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?

Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

‘Surely our adversaries are cut off and destroyed,
And fire has consumed their abundance.’

He shall give thee a harvest, which in plenty and abundance shall exceed the dust of the earth, and the gold of Ophir like river stones.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

But I am not silenced by the darkness,
Nor deep gloom which covers me.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

whereas they, notwithstanding, are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seek not his light and way, nor turn again in to his path.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

"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.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

Where is the counsel that thou shouldest give him, which hath no wisdom? Wilt thou so show thine excellent righteousness?

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;

The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the falcon's eye has not seen:

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.

“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

But there is a spirit which is in man; and the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new wineskins.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life [which inspires me].

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

His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, [which] are invisible, are bared.

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;

Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth.

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

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

Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'

yea, above his sins he hath blasphemed, which offense he hath done even before us, in that he striveth against God with his words!"

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

Which giveth us more understanding than he doth the beasts of the earth, and teacheth us more than the fouls of heaven?'

“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust],
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

“And now, because He has not [quickly] punished in His anger,
Nor has He acknowledged transgression and arrogance well [and seems unaware of the wrong of which a person is guilty],

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

Even so would he have removed you out of the distress into a broad place, where there is no restraint; and that which should be set on your table should be full of richness.

and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

But beware that thou turn not aside to wickedness and sin, which hitherto thou hast chosen more than meekness.

Remember that you should extol his work, [of] which people have sung.

For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

He covers [his] hands [with] lightning, and he commands it the place at [which] to strike.

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

God thundereth marvellously with his voice, doing great things which we do not comprehend.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?

And now men can not look on the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and clears them.

Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend."

“The earth is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed;
And the things [of the earth] stand out like a [multi-colored] garment.

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

which I have reserved for [the] time of trouble, for [the] day of battle and war?

By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],

[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.

Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

Upon earth there is not his like, which is made without fear.

Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.

And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double.

Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they did eat bread with him in his house, - and shewed sympathy with him and comforted him, over all the calamity which Yahweh had brought upon him, - and they gave him, every one a weight of money, and every one, a ring of gold.

And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.