For insomuch as he is God, he maketh my heart soft: and seeing that he is Almighty, he putteth me in fear.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

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.

They pluck down the mighty with their power, and when they themselves are gotten up, they are never without fear, as long as they live.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Is it not so? Who will then reprove me as a liar, and say that my words are nothing worth?"

Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

As long as my life is within me,
And the breath of God is [still] in my nostrils,

while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils.

God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

but it will clap its hands over him, hissing at him as it lunges toward him."

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

Mankind limits the darkness as they search the deepest depths for ore in unfathomable darkness.

He sinks his shaft far from human habitations, in a place forgotten by explorers; they hang on harnesses as they swing back and forth.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out [as] its price.

There is nothing so worthy, or so excellent, as once to be named unto her: for perfect wisdom goeth far beyond them all.

For he looks as far as the ends of the earth and sees everything under the sky.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;

"As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

I served as eyes for the blind and feet for the lame.

A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

My glory renews for me and my bow is as good as new in my hand.'

"They listened and waited for me, as they remained in silence for my counsel.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

The power and strength of their hands might do me no good, and as for their age, it is spent and past away without any profit.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.

you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

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

because something as lascivious as that is an iniquity that should be judged.

What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

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

whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

If I beheld the sun [as an object of worship] when it shone
Or the moon going in its splendor,

Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

“I assure you, the men of my tent have said,
‘Who can find one [in need] who has not been satisfied with his meat’?

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

"If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one,

Therefore will I speak also, insofar as I may be heard, and will show you mine opinion.

Look, I waited for your conclusions;
I listened to your insights
as you sought for words.

Nevertheless, seeing he hath not spoken unto me, therefore will not I answer him as ye have done."

"But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:

"I will contribute my arguments as an answer; I'll declare what I know,

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

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

“However, Job, please listen to my words,
And pay attention to everything I say.

Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

‘Behold, God finds pretexts against me;
He counts me as His enemy.

In a dream, a vision in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they slumber on their beds,

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

“If there is an angel as mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To remind a man what is right for him,

Let his flesh be rejuvenated as he was in his youth! Let him recover the strength of his youth.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.

Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.

Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?

There's no such thing as darkness to him not even deep darkness that can conceal those who practice evil.

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Forasmuch, as they turned from following him, and, none of his ways, did they teach;

As a result, the cries of the poor have reached him and he has heard the cry of the afflicted.

"For so much as I have begun to talk of God, I will not hinder thee;

Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.

As for Job he hath neither spoken to the purpose nor wisely.

Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil,

“For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]?
What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

“Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone [nor regard any as trivial];
He is mighty in the strength and power of understanding.