Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

How long will you go on saying these things?
Your words are a blast of wind.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

Eyes of flesh, hast thou? or, as a mortal seeth, seest thou?

Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk} be vindicated?

For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.

He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:

Too small for thee, are the consolations of GOD? or a word spoken gently with thee?

Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

You who tear yourself in anger—
should the earth be abandoned on your account,
or a rock be removed from its place?

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.

Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

even when his bowels are at the fattest, and his bones full of marrow.

“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?

[Is] it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless?

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.

How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth-born who is a worm?

“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.

Its rocks are a source of sapphire,
containing flecks of gold.

Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

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

“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban!

“They hate me, they stand aloof from me,
And do not refrain from spitting in my face.

"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothing
or a needy person without a cloak,

if I looked at [the] sun when it shone or [at the] moon moving [in] splendor,

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

“If there is an angel as a mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To explain to a man what is right for him [that is, how to be in right standing with God],

For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

May he be made whole, that loveth no right? If thou were a very innocent man, shouldest thou then be punished?

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

“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?—

“Behold, God is exalted in His power;
Who is a ruler or a teacher like Him?

Whether as {correction} or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen.

Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

That the waters are as hard as stones, and lie congealed above the deep.

Or, at thy bidding, that the Eagle mounteth, and that he setteth on high his nest?

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

“Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose
Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

The doors of his face, who hath opened? The circles of his teeth, are a terror!

The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes are as the eyelids of the dawn.

His underparts are like'sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

But You, O Lord, are a shield for me,
My glory [and my honor], and the One who lifts my head.

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

For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.

O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous [those in right standing with You];
For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

You are my hiding place; You, Lord, protect me from trouble;
You surround me with songs and shouts of deliverance. Selah.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

All the day he [is] gracious and lends, and his children [are] a blessing.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers.

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Desolations on them! Let them go down into hades alive, For, wicked doings, are at home within them.

He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.

His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

So that it does not hear the voice of charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.

Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.

How long will ye assail a man; will ye seek, all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

The Lord giveth the word: The women that publish the tidings are a great host.

I have sunk in deep swamp, Where there is no place to stand, I have come into abysses of waters, Where a flood hath overflowed me;

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.