If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my'sad countenance, and be of good cheer;

There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

Are not my days, few? - then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

And he shall announce to thee hidden things of wisdom, for they are the double for understanding. And know thou that God will set to thee from thine iniquity.

If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

But the sight of the wicked will fail.
Their way of escape will be cut off,
and their only hope is their last breath.

And Job answered and said,

Godliness is a light despised in the hearts of the rich, and is set for them to stumble upon.

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight,

Even he, will be on my side - unto salvation, For, not before his face, shall any impious person come.

Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.

“You also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment]
And [critically] observe all my paths;
You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],

Since man’s days are determined
and the number of his months depends on You,
and since You have set limits he cannot pass,

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God.

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Then Job answered and said,

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Appoint it, I pray thee - be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

They set night for day; the light is near in the face of darkness.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

Then Job answered and said,

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Thou knewest this from everlasting when man was set upon the earth:

So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

“In the fullness of his excess (great abundance) he will be in trouble;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him [he is miserable on every side].

He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

But Job answered and said,

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Therefore art thou compassed about with snares on every side, and suddenly vexed with fear.

And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

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

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

And thou shalt decide the word, and it shall be set up to thee: and the light shone upon thy ways.

For who so humbleth himself, him shall he set up: and who so looketh meekly, shall be healed.

Then Job answered and said,

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

If I go on the left side to ponder his works, I can not attain unto them. Again, if I go on the rightside, he hideth himself, that I cannot see him.

My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."

“Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?
Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]?

From the city men will groan, and the soul of the wounded will cry out: and God will not set folly.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.

And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face.

Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.

And if not now, who will cause me to lie, and set my words for nought?

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

But Job answered and said,

To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

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.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon
or a booth set up by a watchman.

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

“The path no bird of prey knows,
Nor has the falcon’s eye caught sight of it.

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

The deep hath said, 'It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, 'It is not with me.'

It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

No, neither gold nor Crystal, neither sweet odours nor golden plate.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.

It has been concealed from the sight of every living creature and hidden even from the birds in the skies.

Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'