Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you,
for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.

For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant;

Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.

As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

"The poor delivereth he out of his affliction, and comforteth such as be in necessity and trouble.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength.

Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,
for that is why you have been tested by affliction.

Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,

See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

His rolling thunder telleth concerning him, - The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.

At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light is over the skirts of the earth.

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

"When he commandeth the snow, it falleth upon the earth: As soon as he giveth the rain a charge, immediately the showers have their strength, and fall down.

serve as His sign to all mankind,
so that all men may know His work.

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south wind ?

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place,

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

that thou mayest bring us unto their quarters, if thou canst tell the way to their houses.

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered [the] drops of dew?

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, 'Behold us?'

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

The wing of the ostrich beats joyously But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

“Yet when she lifts herself on high,
[So swift is she that] she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

“The quiver rattles against him,
[As do] the flashing spear and the lance [of his rider].

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

As oft as the trumpet'soundeth he saith, Aha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth her wings toward the south?

Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?

It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;
its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Do you have an arm as powerful as God's, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty],
And array yourself with honor and majesty.

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,

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

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?