Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

Do you know when mountain goats give birth?
Have you watched the deer in labor?

They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

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

Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

“Will you have faith in him that he will return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

"When you have adorned yourself with exalted majesty, clothed yourself with splendor and dignity,

dispensed the fury of your anger, made sure that you have humbled every proud person,

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

Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!

For when thou thinkest to have hold upon him, he shall beguile thee: Every man also that seeth him, shall go back.

“Who has first given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. [Who can have a claim against Me who made the unmastered beast?]

The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him -- it is not moved.

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

He leaves a path shining after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.

“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];
He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”

Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’

I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you.

Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

And, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning, - and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

Therefore the wicked will not escape judgment, nor will sinners have a place in the assembly of the righteous.

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.

And I -- I have anointed My King, Upon Zion -- My holy hill.'

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.

A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.

The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

'The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.

O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.

The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence [the] enemy and [the] avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.

For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on [the] throne judging correctly.

You have rebuked [the] nations; you have destroyed [the] wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever.

O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.

Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble."

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

He crouches and bows, and the poor have fallen by his might.

[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.

Jehovah is king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

[The] longing of [the] afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will {listen attentively}

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

And I, in Thy kindness I have trusted, Rejoice doth my heart in Thy salvation.

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

There they have feared a fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

[Oh my soul] you have said to Yahweh, "You [are] my Lord. I have no good apart from you."