If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.

And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: -- Young I am in days, and ye are age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion.

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.

The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

"They are dismayed; they no longer answer; {they have nothing to say}.

Should I continue to wait now that they are silent,
now that they stand there and no longer answer?

"Look, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open.

Of the uprightness of my heart are my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

"If you are able, answer me. Present [your argument] {before me}; take your stand.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Why are you arguing with him? He doesn't have to give explanations for what he does to you!

Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;

“Man is also disciplined with pain on his bed,
And with unceasing complaint in his bones,

His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!

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;

If there are words -- answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee.

If there are not -- hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.

For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.

For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.

Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.

He strikes them {where the wicked stood}, {where there are onlookers},

Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

"Men of understanding, speak to me! Are any of you men wise? Then listen to me!

Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?

"Look at [the] heavens, and see; and observe [the] clouds [that] are higher than you.

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

"There is a great cry and complaint made by them that are oppressed with violence; yea, every man complaineth upon the cruel arm of tyrants.

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

{How much less} [when] you say [that] you do not see him, that [the] case [is] {before him}, and you are waiting for him!

Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.

For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.

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

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

then he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

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'll deliver the afflicted through their afflictions and open their ears when they are oppressed."

And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

Who ordained his path for him, and who has asked him, "You are wrong, aren't you?'

All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.

Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

His hands are covered with lightning that he commands to strike his designated target.

“His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence;
The cattle also are told of His coming storm.

“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,
That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].

By God's breath, ice is given, and [the] broad waters [are] frozen.

And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,

“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],
The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,

How thy garments are warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

Hast thou helped him to spread out the heavens, which are strong and bright as a looking glass?

Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness.

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.

Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any {who think that they are wise}."

On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone;

To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days are many!

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?

when they are crouched in the dens, [when] they lie in the thicket in an ambush?

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?

"Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

Can you count the months they are pregnant
so you can know the time they give birth?

Or when they lie down, when they cast their young ones, and when they are delivered of their travail and pain?

Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

"[The] wings of [the] female ostrich flap-- [are they] [the] pinions of [the] stork or [the] falcon?

And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced are -- there is he!

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty],
And array yourself with honor and majesty.

stared down and subdued every proud person, trampled the wicked right where they are,

He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

His bones are tubes of brass, His bones are as a bar of iron.

He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

Are your eyes looking to capture him, or to pierce his snout with a bridle?"

"Or, who hath given me anything afore hand, that I am bound to reward him again? All things under heaven are mine.

The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth are terrible.

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

They are close {to one another}-- even [the] air cannot come between them.