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.

Iron from the dust is taken, And from the firm stone brass.

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden thing bringeth out to light.

"But from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire.

Topaz from Cush cannot compare with it,
and it cannot be valued in pure gold.

From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

And He saith to man: -- 'Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

After a word from me they did not speak again;
my speech settled on them like dew.

Also, what profit for me was the strength of their hands, for full vigor had perished from them?

From want and famine they are gaunt; fleeing of late into the wilderness, desolate and waste.

By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

or I have eaten my morsel {alone}, and [the] orphan has not eaten from it

(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

If I shall see one perishing from not being clothed, and no covering to the needy;

If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Also this an iniquity for the judges: for I lied to God from above.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

“Oh, that I had one to listen to me!
Look, here is my signature (mark);
Let the Almighty answer me!
Let my adversary write out His indictment [and put His vague accusations in tangible form].

And these three men cease from answering Job, for he is righteous in his own eyes,

So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}. {He became angry} at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.

Barachel's son Elihu from Buz responded and said: "I'm younger than you are. Because you're older, I was terrified to tell you what I know.

And I will show myself attentive even to you, and behold, none from you confuting to Job, answering his words.

(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.

My words come from my upright heart,
and my lips speak with sincerity what they know.

Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth.

He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.

He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

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

If there is a messenger upon him, an interpreter, one from a thousand, to announce to man his uprightness:

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

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.

If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

But if you have nothing to say, then at least listen to me! Be quiet and learn some wisdom from me."

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

Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:

“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,

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

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

so that [they] cause [the] cry of distress from [the] helpless to come to him, and he hears [the] cry of distress from [the] needy,

“When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn?
When He hides His face [withdrawing His favor and help], who then can behold Him [and make supplication to Him],
Whether it be a nation or a man by himself?—

From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;

Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight!

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

For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

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

People cry out because of severe oppression;
they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.

And who teacheth us from the cattle of the earth, and he will make us wise above the birds of the heavens?

Then they will cry, and he will not answer from the face of the pride of the evil.

I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

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 He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

Can your wealth or all your physical exertion
keep you from distress?

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

All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

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

Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out
or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place.

Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth.

After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,

From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

Yea, the same, in circles, turneth itself to and fro, by his steering them to their work, whithersoever he commandeth them, over the face of the world, towards the earth.

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

Make known to us what we shall say to him we shall not set in order from the face of darkness.

From the golden north it cometh, Beside God is fearful honour.

Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,

to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?