Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!

Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:

If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence!

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:

Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors - to the wayfarer, I threw open.

Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door!

Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!

The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.

If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;

If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;

So these three men ceased to respond to Job, because, he, was righteous in their eyes.

So then Elihu, son of Barachel, the Buzite, responded and said: - Young, am I, whereas, ye, are aged, For this cause, I faltered, and feared - to shew my knowledge unto you:

Lo! I waited for your words, I kept giving ear for your reasons, until ye should search out what to say;

Yea, unto you, gave I diligent heed, - But lo! there was, for Job, nothing to convince, nor could you of you answer his speeches.

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man.

Since he directed not to me discourse, therefore, with your speeches, will I not reply to him.

They were dismayed, they responded no more, they suffered speech to forsake them;

Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more.

Let me be partial to no man, and, unto no son of earth, give flattering titles,

Surely I know not how to give flattering titles, How soon might my Maker take me away!

But, in very deed, hear, I pray thee, Job, my discourse, and, to all my words, give thou ear.

If thou art able to answer me, Set in order before me - take thy stand!

Lo! occasions of hostility, would he find against me, He counteth me an enemy to him;

To turn a son of earth from his deed, while yet, pride, from man he concealeth:

So doth his soul draw near to the pit, and his life to the inflicters of death:

If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret - one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,

Then hath he shewed him favour, and said, Set him free from going down to the pit, I have found a price of redemption!

His flesh hath been made fresher than a child's, he hath returned to the days of his youth;

He made supplication unto GOD, who hath accepted him, and he hath beheld his face with a shout of triumph, Thus hath he given back to man his righteousness.

Lo! a these things, doth GOD work, two ways, three, with a man;

To bring back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.

Mark well, O Job, and hearken to me, Be silent, and, I, will speak:

If there is anything to say, reply to me, Speak, for I desire to justify thee;

If not, do, thou, hearken unto me, Be silent, that I may teach thee wisdom.

And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.

For, what any son of earth doeth, he repayeth him, and, according to every man's course, he causeth him to find.

All flesh together, would cease to breathe, and, the earth-born, unto dust, would return.

If then thou hast understanding, hear this, Give thou ear to the teaching of my words: -

Doth one say to a king, Abandoned one! Or, Lawless one! unto nobles?

In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night, - A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;

Causing to reach him the outcry of the poor, Yea, the outcry of the oppressed, he heareth.

What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?

According to thy mind, must he requite it, that thou hast refused? For, thou, must choose, and not, I, What then thou knowest, speak!

The men of mind, will say to me, yea any wise man hearkening unto me: -

Would that Job might be tested to the uttermost, for replying with the men of iniquity:

This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said - My righteousness is more than GOD'S.

If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.

Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions - that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;

Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said - that they should turn from iniquity.

Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.

Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.

Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.

For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards, - Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains.

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.

Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.

Canst thou got to know of GOD'S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?

Canst thou get to know concerning the poisings of the thick cloud, the wonders of one who is perfect in knowledge?

Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness.

Shall it be declared to him - that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?

Therefore, do men revere him, He will not regard any who are wise in heart.

Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: -

And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?

Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;

Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?

That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.

Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?

To give rain over the no-man's land, the desert, where no son of earth is;

To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?

Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?

Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?

Who hath put - into cloud-forms - wisdom? Or who hath given - to the meteor - understanding?

Will the Wild-Ox be pleased to be thy servant? or lodge for the night by thy crib?

For she leaveth - to the earth - her eggs, and, on the dust, she letteth them be warmed;

For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.

Couldst thou give - to the Horse - strength? Couldst thou clothe his neck with the quivering mane?

Couldst thou cause him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his snort, is a terror!

He diggeth into the plain, and rejoiceth in vigour, he goeth forth to meet armour;

Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?

From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce;

And Yahweh responded to Job, and said: -

Then Job responded to Yahweh, and said: -

Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:

So then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: -

Surely the mountains bring, produce, to him, where, all the wild beasts of the field, do play;

Lo! the river becometh insolent - he is not alarmed! He is confident, though a Jordan burst forth to his mouth:

One to another, they join, and, air, cannot enter between them;

Each to its fellow, they cleave, they grasp each other, and cannot be parted;

He causeth to boil, as a cauldron, the raging deep, the sea, he maketh like a brewing vessel:

After him, he lighteth up a path, one might think the resounding deep to be hoary!

There is not - upon the dust - his like, that hath been made to be without fear;

I know that, all things, thou canst do, and that no purpose can be withholden from thee.

Who is it that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I declared, but not understood, things too wonderful for me, which I could not know.

And it came to pass, after Yahweh had spoken these words unto Job, that Yahweh, said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, Kindled is mine anger against thee and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

Now, therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go unto my servant Job, and ye shall offer up an ascending-sacrifice in your own behalf, and, Job my servant, shall pray over you, - for, him, will I accept, that I may not deal out to you disgrace, because ye have not spoken concerning me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted 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.