And it happened {one day} {that} the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst.

{And then} one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.

The paths of their way wind [around]; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.

If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the {power} of their transgression.

The earth is given into [the] hand of [the] wicked; he covers the face of its judge-- if [it is] not [he], then who [is] it?

then you plunge me into the [slime] pit, and my clothes abhor me.

Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?

[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.

Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.

God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of [the] wicked.

They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'

Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

Does he reprove you because of your reverence [or] enter into judgment with you?

He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.

{so that} he is gracious [to] him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into [the] pit; I have found a ransom.'

He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so {I will enjoy the light}.'

And what's more, he allured you {out of distress} [into] a broad place, [where] in place of it [was] no constraint; and [what] was set on your table is 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.

Indeed, he draws up [the] drops of water; he distills [the] rain into its mist,

Then [the] animal goes into [its] den, and it remains in its den.

"Have you entered into [the] sea's sources? Or have you walked around in [the] recesses of the deep?

Have you entered into [the] storehouses of [the] snow, or have you seen [the] storehouses of [the] hail,

at [the] flowing of [the] dust into a cast and [the] clods cling together?