By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;

Because, my girdle, he had loosened and had humbled me, therefore, the bridle - in my presence, cast they off;

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?

Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

if he hadn't thanked me from the bottom of his heart, if he had not been warmed by wool from my sheep,

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

No stranger had to spend the night on the street,
for I opened my door to the traveler.

If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

“Surely I would [proudly] bear it on my shoulder,
And bind the scroll around my head like a crown.

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

but when he saw that there had been no response from those three, he got even more angry.

For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication;

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

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

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

For, in one way, GOD may speak, - and, in a second way, one may not heed it: -

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

“Pay attention, Job, listen to me;
Keep silent, and I will speak.

saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

because they've abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways.

If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And , What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

He covers His hands with lightning
and commands it to hit its mark.

You whose garments are hot,
When He quiets the earth [in sultry summer] with the [oppressive] south wind?

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

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

By what way is the light parted, and the heat dealt out upon the earth?

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

When the dust hardens into a mass
And the clods stick together [because of the heat]?

For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider.

Against him, whiz the arrows of the quiver, the flashing head of spear and javelin;

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

the fens hide him with their shadow, and the willows of the brook cover him round about.

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

out of his nostrils there goeth smoke, like as out of a hot seething pot.

He leaves a shining wake behind him;
one would think the deep had gray hair!

"I know that thou hast power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto thee.

‘Hear, please, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Listen to my words, O Lord,
Consider my groaning and sighing.

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,
For to You I pray.

The boastful do not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

And Jehovah will be a height for the oppressed one, a height for times in straits.

When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.

Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

He will rain upon the, unjust, snares, fire and brimstone, and a wind of violent heat: the portion of their cup.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have placed my trust and found refuge.

O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer [I make] without deceitful lips.

Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:

As for the workings of men, By the word of thy lips, have, I, taken heed of the paths of the violent one.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.