Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

“However, Job, please listen to my words,
And pay attention to everything I say.

See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

My words [declare] my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak {what my lips know}.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

“Behold, I will not make you afraid or terrified of me [for I am only mortal and not God],
Nor should any pressure from me weigh heavily upon you.

"You spoke clearly so I could hear; I've heard what you've said:

See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

‘He puts my feet in the stocks [to hinder and humiliate me];
He [suspiciously] watches all my paths,’ [you say].

Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

“In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God’s voice],
When deep sleep falls on men
While slumbering upon the bed,

Then he openeth men's ears, and sealeth their instruction,

to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person's pride.

He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction],
And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

“Man is also disciplined with pain on his bed,
And with unceasing complaint in his bones,

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

“His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
And his bones which were not seen now stick out.

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

“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],

Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

to bring his life back from [the] pit {so that he may enjoy the light of life}.

Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

“If not [and you have nothing to say], listen to me;
Keep silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

And Elihu will answer and say,

“Hear my words, you wise men,
And listen to me, you who have [so much] knowledge.

For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

let's choose what's right for us. Let's consider among ourselves what is good."

Now this is Job's claim: "Even though I'm innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously.

And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.

For he has said, “A man gains nothing
when he becomes God’s friend.”

For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to his way.

What's more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.

If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,

"But if [you have] understanding, hear this; listen to {what I say}.

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.

There's no such thing as darkness to him not even deep darkness that can conceal those who practice evil.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,

so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare [the] people.

"Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured [chastisement]; I will not act corruptly [again];

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused his judgment; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.

Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:

Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit
Because he answers like wicked men!

so that we may not add to our sins, and lawlessness will be reckoned against us, speaking many words before LORD.

And Elihu will answer and say,

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

And Elihu went on to say,

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

because what I have to say isn't deceptive, and the one who has perfect knowledge is with you."

He turneth not his eyes away from the righteous; he setteth up kings in their throne, and confirmeth them, so that they alway sit therein.

So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.

“But if they do not hear and obey, they will die by the sword [of God’s destructive judgments]
And they will die [in ignorance] without [true] knowledge.

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.

Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.

Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

“Remember that you should magnify God’s work,
Of which men have sung.

Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

together for to rain, so that they pour down and drop upon men.

Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out
or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm's approach.

"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body!

Listen carefully to his voice's thunder and [the] rumbling [that] goes out from his mouth.

He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth's corners.

For he will say to the snow, Be it on earth; and to the shower of rain, and to the shower of the rains of his strength.

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

So then the wild-beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.

By God's breath, ice is given, and [the] broad waters [are] frozen.

and it is turned around by His guidance, so that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world in the earth.

"Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.

Do you know {how God commands them} and [how] he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?

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

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

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

A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

For this, men shall fear him: he will not see all the wise of heart.

And Jehovah will answer Job from the whirlwind, and he will say,

"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

Gird up thy loins like a man, for I will question thee, see thou give me a direct answer.