But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

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

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

“For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Behold, the Moon shineth nothing in comparison to him, and the stars are unclean in his sight.

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

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

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

for from my youth, I raised him as his father,
and since the day I was born I guided the widow—

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

“For tragedy from God is a terror to me,
And because of His majesty and exaltation I can do nothing [nor endure facing Him].

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

I never suffered my mouth to do such a sin, as to wish him evil.

I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him.

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

And Elihu waited for Job in words, for they were old for days above him.

But it is a spirit in man
and the breath of the Almighty
that give him understanding.

“I even paid close attention to [what] you [said],
Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him],
Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

I have a good hope for my part to shape him an answer, and to show him my meaning.

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.

Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep him from 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).

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

So that his life makes him loathe food,
And his soul [loathe] even his favorite dishes.

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

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

Let his flesh be rejuvenated as he was in his youth! Let him recover the strength 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.

in order to turn him back from the Pit,
so he may shine with the light of life.

“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
When he takes delight and is pleased with God and obeys Him.’

For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

If he only thought of himself, and gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile, Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

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

For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

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

When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

"Should you not be paid back, since you have rejected him? You do the choosing! I won't! Tell us what you know!

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

For such one never sayeth, 'Where is God that made me? And that shineth upon us, that we might praise him in the night?

But if a man call upon God, doth not he hear him? Doth not the Almighty accept his cry?

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

I will lift up my knowledge from far off, and to him making me, I will give justice.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

“But the godless in heart store up anger [at the divine discipline];
They do not cry [to Him] for help when He binds them [with cords of affliction].

Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

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

All of mankind sees him; human beings observe him from afar off."

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

Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.