He shakes the earth from its place
so that its pillars tremble.

He commands the sun so that it doesn't shine and seals up the stars.

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

“God will not turn back His anger;
The [proud] helpers of Rahab [the arrogant monster of the sea] bow under Him.

So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?

"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.

He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

"Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him?

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

“The earth is given into the hands of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blind to justice].
If it is not He, then who is it [that is responsible for all this injustice]?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

I will be condemned, so why should I wear myself out with this futility?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

You would still plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would hate me [and refuse to cover my foul body].

He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

Let Him take His rod away from me
so His terror will no longer frighten me.

Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

‘Do You have eyes of flesh?
Do You see as a man sees?

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Are my days not few? Stop it!
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

Zophar from Naamath had this to say:

Should your babbling put others to silence,
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?

“For you have said, ‘My teaching (doctrine) [that God knowingly afflicts the righteous] is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

and disclose his wise secrets? After all, there's so much more to understanding. So be aware that God will exact from you less than your sin deserves."

Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

These things are higher than the heavens, so what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol, so what can you know?

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

For he knows mankind's deceitfulness; when he sees iniquity, won't he himself consider it?

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

if thou wouldst put away the wickedness which thou hast in hand, so that no ungodliness dwelt in thy house;

Above high noon, shall rise life's continuance, Darkness, like a morning, shall appear,

You'll be secure, because there is hope; you'll see that you're at rest and safe.

“You would lie down with no one to frighten you,
And many would entreat and seek your favor.

So Job answered, and said,

“But I have intelligence and understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these [of God’s wisdom and might]?

A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!

The tents of robbers are safe,
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

“Who among all these does not recognize [in all these things that good and evil are randomly scattered throughout nature and human life]
That the hand of the Lord has done this,

“With the aged [you say] is wisdom,
And with long life is understanding.

The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave's waistcloth about their loins:

He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.

Behold all mine eye saw, and mine ear heard, and it will understand for it

“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

Would you testify unjustly on God’s behalf
or speak deceitfully for Him?

{Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case?

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

Would God’s majesty not terrify you?
Would His dread not fall on you?

“Be silent before me so that I may speak;
And let happen to me what may.

“Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
And put my life in my hands [incurring the wrath of God]?

Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

Can anyone indict me?
If so, I will be silent and die.

Only grant these two things to me, God,
so that I will not have to hide from Your presence:

“How many are my iniquities and sins [that so much sorrow should come to me]?
Make me recognize and understand my transgression and my sin.

Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?

So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].

“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

When a man dies, will he come back to life?
If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle
until my relief comes.

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.

The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.

If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

and EliPhaz the Temanite will answer and say,

"Should a wise man's answer be as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east?

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

Your iniquity teaches you what to say,
and you choose the language of the crafty.

Have you listened in God's confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?

Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,

So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

"All of the wicked [one's] days he is writhing, even [through] the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.

“He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered],
And he is destined for the sword [of God’s vengeance].

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

He will never apply himself to faithfulness and truth, so sore is he deceived with vanity.

And Job will answer and say,

“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?
Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.

“God hands me over to criminals
And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.

“His arrows surround me.
He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights.