So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me!

He denounces friends for reward, so his children's eyes will fail.

But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires.

They change the night into day: The light,'say they , is near unto the darkness.

Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

And Bildad the Shuhite will answer and say,

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

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

The trap shall take him by the heel, and the noose shall hold sway over him.

It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."

And Job will answer and say,

Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

know this then: that it is God which hath handled me so violently, and hath compassed me about with his net.

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
He uproots my hope like a tree.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

be afraid for yourselves {because of the sword}, for wrath [brings] punishment by [the] sword, so that you may know that [there is] judgment."

And the Naainathite will answer and say,

Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:

Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds:

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night.

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

though he savors it and delays swallowing it so he can taste it again and again in his mouth,

his food will turn rancid in his stomach it will become a cobra's poison inside him.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper.

In the fullness of his excess {he will be in distress}; all of misery's power will come [upon] him.

"For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him:

so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow.

“The produce and increase of his house will depart [with the victors];
His possessions will be dragged away in the day of God’s wrath.

“This is the wicked man’s portion from God,
And the heritage decreed and appointed to him by God.”

And Job will answer and say,

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren.

Their houses are safe from fear, and God's chastisement never visits them.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

“But notice, the prosperity of the wicked is not in their hand (in their power);
The counsel of the wicked [and the mystery of God’s dealings with the ungodly] is far from my comprehension.

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

Ye say , God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

“That evil men are [now] reserved for the day of disaster and destruction,
They will be led away on the day of [God’s] wrath?

“But who will confront him with his actions and rebuke him face to face,
And who will repay him for what he has done?

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

So Eliphaz the Temanite gave answer, and said,

Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

Your wickedness is great, isn't it? There's no limit to your iniquity, is there?

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

That's why disaster surrounds you, terror suddenly overwhelms you,

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Is not God high in heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.

“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

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

“Will you keep to the ancient path
That wicked men walked [in the time of Noah],

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

"Our enemies are sure to be destroyed, and fire will burn up what's left of their riches."

Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

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

So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee!

“You will also decide and decree a thing, and it will be established for you;
And the light [of God’s favor] will shine upon your ways.

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

Job's response was to say:

If only I knew how to find Him,
so that I could go to His throne.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

"When I go forward, {he is not there}, or backward, I cannot see him.

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

That's why I'm terrified at his presence! When I think about it, I'm afraid of him.

Thus can I not get out of darkness, the cloud hath so covered my face.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

In the field - -a man's fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

For the morning is like darkness to them.
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

“They are insignificant on the surface of the water;
Their portion is cursed on the earth;
They do not turn toward the vineyards.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

The womb forgets them;
worms feed on them;
they are remembered no more.
So injustice is broken like a tree.

He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it,
but His eyes watch over their ways.