Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/ylt.lzh/JOB.LZH/JOB

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1:1 A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name --
 and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God,
 and turning aside from evil.
1:2 And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,
1:3 and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three
 thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five
 hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is
 greater than any of the sons of the east.
1:4 And his sons have gone and made a banquet -- the house of
 each [in] his day -- and have sent and called to their three
 sisters to eat and to drink with them;
1:5 and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of
 the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath
 risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend
 burnt-offerings -- the number of them all -- for Job said,
 `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.'
 Thus doth Job all the days.
1:6 And the day is, that sons of God come in to station
 themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary
 in their midst.
1:7 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence comest thou?'
 And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to
 and fro in the land, and from walking up and down on it.'
1:8 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy
 heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in
 the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning
 aside from evil?'
1:9 And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought
 is Job fearing God?
1:10 Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and
 for all that he hath -- round about?
1:11 The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance
 hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy
 hand, and strike against anything that he hath -- if not: to
 Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
1:12 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath
 [is] in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And
 the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah.
1:13 And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating,
 and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the
 first-born.
1:14 And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen
 have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,
1:15 and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they
 have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped --
 only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'
1:16 While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and
 saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth
 among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them,
 and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'
1:17 While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and
 saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and
 take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of
 the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare [it]
 to thee.'
1:18 While this [one] is speaking another also hath come and
 saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking
 wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
1:19 And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness,
 and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it
 falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped
 -- only I alone -- to declare [it] to thee.'
1:20 And Job riseth, and rendeth his robe, and shaveth his head,
 and falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance,
1:21 and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my
 mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and
 Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'
1:22 In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.
2:1 And the day is, that sons of God come in to station
 themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary
 in their midst to station himself by Jehovah.
2:2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Whence camest thou?'
 And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `From going to
 and fro in the land, and from walking up and down in it.'
2:3 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy
 heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the
 land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside
 from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and
 thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'
2:4 And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `A skin for a
 skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.
2:5 Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his
 bone and unto his flesh -- if not: unto Thy face he doth bless
 Thee!'
2:6 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, he [is] in thy
 hand; only his life take care of.'
2:7 And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah,
 and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot
 unto his crown.
2:8 And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it,
 and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
2:9 And his wife saith to him, `Still thou art keeping hold on
 thine integrity: bless God and die.'
2:10 And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women
 speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and
 the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned
 with his lips.
2:11 And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that
 hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place --
 Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
 Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan
 him, and to comfort him;
2:12 and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not
 discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend
 each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.
2:13 And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven
 nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they
 have seen that the pain hath been very great.
3:1 After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.
3:2 And Job answereth and saith: --
3:3 Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that
 hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'
3:4 That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from
 above, Nor let light shine upon it.
3:5 Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud
 tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of
 days.
3:6 That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be
 united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it
 not come.
3:7 Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into
 it.
3:8 Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up
 Leviathan.
3:9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for
 light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of
 the dawn.
3:10 Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was
 mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
3:11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come
 forth and gasp!
3:12 Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts,
 that I suck?
3:13 For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept --
 then there is rest to me,
3:14 With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes
 for themselves.
3:15 Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their
 houses [with] silver.
3:16 (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have
 not seen light.)
3:17 There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do
 the wearied in power.
3:18 Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard
 the voice of an exactor,
3:19 Small and great [are] there the same. And a servant [is]
 free from his lord.
3:20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the
 bitter soul?
3:21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it
 above hid treasures.
3:22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a
 grave.
3:23 To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut
 up?
3:24 For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as
 waters [are] my roarings.
3:25 For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was
 afraid of doth come to me.
3:26 I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest --
 and trouble cometh!
4:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
4:2 Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to
 keep in words who is able?
4:3 Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest
 strong.
4:4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees
 thou dost strengthen.
4:5 But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It
 striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.
4:6 Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the
 perfection of thy ways?
4:7 Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished?
 And where have the upright been cut off?
4:8 As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of
 misery, reap it!
4:9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of
 His anger consumed.
4:10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And
 teeth of young lions have been broken.
4:11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of
 the lioness do separate.
4:12 And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth
 mine ear a little of it.
4:13 In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of
 deep sleep on men,
4:14 Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my
 bones caused to fear.
4:15 And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the
 hair of my flesh;
4:16 It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude
 [is] over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:
4:17 `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a
 man cleaner?
4:18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His
 messengers setteth praise.'
4:19 Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose
 foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
4:20 From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any
 regarding, for ever they perish.
4:21 Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die,
 and not in wisdom!
5:1 Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of
 the holy ones dost thou turn?
5:2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to
 death the simple,
5:3 I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his
 habitation straightway,
5:4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the
 gate, And there is no deliverer.
5:5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns
 taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
5:6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the
 ground springeth up misery.
5:7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
5:8 Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
5:9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful,
 till there is no numbering.
5:10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending
 waters on the out-places.
5:11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been
 high [in] safety.
5:12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not
 execute wisdom.
5:13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of
 wrestling ones was hastened,
5:14 By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at
 noon.
5:15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a
 strong hand the needy,
5:16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut
 her mouth.
5:17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And
 the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
5:18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His
 hands heal.
5:19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil
 striketh not on thee.
5:20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle
 from the hands of the sword.
5:21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not
 afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
5:22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast
 of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
5:23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the
 beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
5:24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected
 thy habitation, and errest not,
5:25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine
 offspring as the herb of the earth;
5:26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of
 a stalk in its season.
5:27 Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it [is] right, hearken;
 And thou, know for thyself!
6:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
6:2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my
 calamity in balances They would lift up together!
6:3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore
 my words have been rash.
6:4 For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is
 drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for]
 me!
6:5 Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his
 provender?
6:6 Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in
 the drivel of dreams?
6:7 My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening
 food.
6:8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
6:9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and
 cut me off!
6:10 And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth
 not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
6:11 What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end
 That I should prolong my life?
6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?
6:13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
6:14 To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of
 the Mighty he forsaketh.
6:15 My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks
 they pass away.
6:16 That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide
 itself.
6:17 By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its
 being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
6:18 Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into
 emptiness, and are lost.
6:19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba
 hoped for them.
6:20 They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come
 unto it and are confounded.
6:21 Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and
 are afraid.
6:22 Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe
 for me?
6:23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From
 the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
6:24 Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let
 me understand.
6:25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth
 reproof from you reprove?
6:26 For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings
 of the desperate.
6:27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange
 to your friend.
6:28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
6:29 Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea,
 turn back again -- my righteousness [is] in it.
6:30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my
 palate desirable things?
7:1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of
 an hireling his days?
7:2 As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling
 expecteth his wage,
7:3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And
 nights of misery they numbered to me.
7:4 If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening
 hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
7:5 Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust,
 My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
7:6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are
 consumed without hope.
7:7 Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth
 not back to see good.
7:8 The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are]
 upon me -- and I am not.
7:9 Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going
 down to Sheol cometh not up.
7:10 He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place
 discern him again.
7:11 Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the
 distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
7:12 A sea-[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over
 me a guard?
7:13 When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my
 talking my couch.
7:14 And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions
 thou terrifiest me,
7:15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my
 bones.
7:16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from
 me, for my days [are] vanity.
7:17 What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou
 settest unto him Thy heart?
7:18 And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost
 try him?
7:19 How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist
 till I swallow my spittle.
7:20 I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why
 hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to
 myself -- and what?
7:21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass
 away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou
 hast sought me -- and I am not!
8:1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
8:2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind --
 sayings of thy mouth?
8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert
 justice?
8:4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them
 away, By the hand of their transgression,
8:5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest
 supplication,
8:6 If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for
 thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
8:7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is
 very great.
8:8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to
 a search of their fathers,
8:9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow
 [are] our days on earth.)
8:10 Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their
 heart bring forth words?
8:11 `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without
 water?
8:12 While it [is] in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any
 herb it withereth.
8:13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of
 the profane doth perish,
8:14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider
 his trust.
8:15 He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh
 hold on it -- and it abideth not.
8:16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his
 branch goeth out.
8:17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he
 looketh for.
8:18 If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath
 feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
8:19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others
 spring up.'
8:20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the
 hand of evil doers.
8:21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with
 shouting,
8:22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the
 wicked is not!
9:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
9:2 Truly I have known that [it is] so, And what -- is man
 righteous with God?
9:3 If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him
 one of a thousand.
9:4 Wise in heart and strong in power -- Who hath hardened
 toward Him and is at peace?
9:5 Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath
 overturned them in His anger.
9:6 Who is shaking earth from its place, And its pillars move
 themselves.
9:7 Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars
 He sealeth up.
9:8 Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the
 heights of the sea,
9:9 Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the
 south.
9:10 Doing great things till there is no searching, And
 wonderful, till there is no numbering.
9:11 Lo, He goeth over by me, and I see not, And He passeth on,
 and I attend not to it.
9:12 Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto
 Him, `What dost Thou?'
9:13 God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have
 proud helpers.
9:14 How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words
 with Him?
9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my
 judgment I make supplication.
9:16 Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe
 that He giveth ear [to] my voice.
9:17 Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied
 my wounds for nought.
9:18 He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me
 with bitter things.
9:19 If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment -- who
 doth convene me?
9:20 If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked,
 Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.
9:21 Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.
9:22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and
 the wicked He is consuming.'
9:23 If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of
 the innocent He laugheth.
9:24 Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The
 face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who [is] he?
9:25 My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled,
 they have not seen good,
9:26 They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth
 on food.
9:27 Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner,
 and I brighten up!'
9:28 I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou
 dost not acquit me.
9:29 I -- I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.
9:30 If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with
 soap my hands,
9:31 Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have
 abominated me.
9:32 But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together
 into judgment.
9:33 If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand
 on us both.
9:34 He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth
 not make me afraid,
9:35 I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with
 myself.
10:1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking
 to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou
 dost strive [with] me.
10:3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou
 despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the
 wicked hast shone?
10:4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?
10:5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of
 a man?
10:6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin
 seekest?
10:7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no
 deliverer from Thy hand.
10:8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me
 together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
10:9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And
 unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
10:10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle
 me?
10:11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and
 sinews dost fence me.
10:12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy
 inspection hath preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known
 that this [is] with Thee.
10:14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine
 iniquity dost not acquit me,
10:15 If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I
 lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
10:16 And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou
 turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
10:17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply
 Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
10:18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I
 expire, and the eye doth not see me.
10:19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am
 brought,
10:20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I
 brighten up a little,
10:21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and
 death-shade,
10:22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and
 no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
11:1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
11:2 Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips
 justified?
11:3 Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none
 is causing blushing!
11:4 And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have
 been in Thine eyes.'
11:5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with
 thee.
11:6 And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath
 foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, [Some] of
 thine iniquity.
11:7 By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find
 out the Mighty One?
11:8 Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than
 Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
11:9 Longer than earth [is] its measure, And broader than the
 sea.
11:10 If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost
 reverse it?
11:11 For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity,
 And one doth not consider [it]!
11:12 And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is
 born.
11:13 If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread
 out unto Him thy hands,
11:14 If iniquity [is] in thy hand, put it far off, And let not
 perverseness dwell in thy tents.
11:15 For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou
 hast been firm, and fearest not.
11:16 For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou
 rememberest.
11:17 And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the
 morning thou art.
11:18 And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched
 -- in confidence thou liest down,
11:19 And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And
 many have entreated thy face;
11:20 And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath
 perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!
12:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
12:2 Truly -- ye [are] the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
12:3 I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than
 you, And with whom is there not like these?
12:4 A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He
 answereth him,' A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
12:5 A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is
 prepared for those sliding with the feet.
12:6 At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God
 have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
12:7 And yet, ask, I pray thee, [One of] the beasts, and it doth
 shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to
 thee.
12:8 Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of
 the sea recount to thee:
12:9 `Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah
 hath done this?
12:10 In whose hand [is] the breath of every living thing, And
 the spirit of all flesh of man.'
12:11 Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for
 itself?
12:12 With the very aged [is] wisdom, And [with] length of days
 understanding.
12:13 With Him [are] wisdom and might, To him [are] counsel and
 understanding.
12:14 Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth
 against a man, And it is not opened.
12:15 Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And
 he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.
12:16 With Him [are] strength and wisdom, His the deceived and
 deceiver.
12:17 Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He
 maketh foolish.
12:18 The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle
 on their loins.
12:19 Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He
 overthroweth.
12:20 Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of
 the aged He taketh away.
12:21 Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the
 mighty He made feeble.
12:22 Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out
 to light death-shade.
12:23 Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading
 out the nations, and He quieteth them.
12:24 Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the
 land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!
12:25 They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to
 wander as a drunkard.
13:1 Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it
 attendeth to it.
13:2 According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am
 not fallen more than you.
13:3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I
 delight.
13:4 And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of
 nought -- all of you,
13:5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to
 you for wisdom.
13:6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my
 lips attend,
13:7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak
 deceit?
13:8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
13:9 Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at
 a man, ye mock at Him?
13:10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
13:11 Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall
 upon you?
13:12 Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places
 of clay your heights.
13:13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth
 what?
13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put
 in my hand?
13:15 Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His
 face I argue.
13:16 Also -- He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane
 cometh not before Him.
13:17 Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your
 ears.
13:18 Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have
 known that I am righteous.
13:19 Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep
 silent and gasp.
13:20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I
 am not hidden.
13:21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not
 terrify me.
13:22 And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and
 answer Thou me.
13:23 How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and
 my sin let me know.
13:24 Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy
 to Thee?
13:25 A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble
 dost Thou pursue?
13:26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me
 to possess iniquities of my youth:
13:27 And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my
 paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath
 a moth consumed him.
14:1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
14:2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he
 fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
14:3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring
 me into judgment with Thee.
14:4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
14:5 If determined are his days, The number of his months [are]
 with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;
14:6 Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as
 an hireling his day.
14:7 For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again
 it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.
14:8 If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth
 die in the dust,
14:9 From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made
 a crop as a plant.
14:10 And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and
 where [is] he?
14:11 Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh
 waste and dry.
14:12 And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing
 out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their
 sleep.
14:13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the
 turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
14:14 If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I
 wait, till my change come.
14:15 Thou dost call, and I -- I answer Thee; To the work of Thy
 hands Thou hast desire.
14:16 But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over
 my sin.
14:17 Sealed up in a bag [is] my transgression, And Thou sewest
 up mine iniquity.
14:18 And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is
 removed from its place.
14:19 Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away
 the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.
14:20 Thou prevailest [over] him for ever, and he goeth, He is
 changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.
14:21 Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are
 little, and he attendeth not to them.
14:22 Only -- his flesh for him is pained, And his soul for him
 doth mourn.'
15:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
15:2 Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill
 [with] an east wind his belly?
15:3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit
 in them?
15:4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish
 meditation before God.
15:5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth
 the tongue of the subtile.
15:6 Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips
 testify against thee.
15:7 The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast
 thou formed?
15:8 Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And
 withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
15:9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou
 -- and it is not with us?
15:10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us --
 Greater than thy father [in] days.
15:11 Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle
 word [is] with thee,
15:12 What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are
 thine eyes high?
15:13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought
 out words from thy mouth:
15:14 What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous,
 one born of woman?
15:15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the
 heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
15:16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as
 water perverseness.
15:17 I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and
 declare:
15:18 Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their
 fathers.
15:19 To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed
 not over into their midst:
15:20 `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few
 years have been laid up for the terrible one.
15:21 A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a
 destroyer come to him.
15:22 He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is]
 he for the sword.
15:23 He is wandering for bread -- `Where [is] it?' He hath
 known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
15:24 Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over
 him As a king ready for a boaster.
15:25 For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the
 Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
15:26 He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his
 shields.
15:27 For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh
 vigour over [his] confidence.
15:28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in,
 That have been ready to become heaps.
15:29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he
 stretch out on earth their continuance.
15:30 He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth
 a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His
 mouth!
15:31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived,
 For vanity is his recompence.
15:32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is
 not green.
15:33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off
 as an olive his blossom.
15:34 For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath
 consumed tents of bribery.
15:35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart
 doth prepare deceit.
16:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
16:2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are]
 ye all.
16:3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden
 thee that thou answerest?
16:4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my
 soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at
 you with my head.
16:5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips
 might be sparing.
16:6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what
 goeth from me?
16:7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my
 company,
16:8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And
 rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
16:9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at
 me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
16:10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they
 have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set
 themselves.
16:11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of
 the wicked turneth me over.
16:12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid
 hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth
 me to him for a mark.
16:13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins,
 and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
16:14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me
 as a mighty one.
16:15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the
 dust my horn.
16:16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is]
 death-shade.
16:17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.
16:18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be
 a place for my cry.
16:19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my
 testifier in the high places.
16:20 My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye
 dropped:
16:21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for
 his friend.
16:22 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I
 go.
17:1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished --
 graves [are] for me.
17:2 If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their
 provocations mine eye lodgeth.
17:3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that
 striketh hand with me?
17:4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding,
 Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
17:5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his
 sons are consumed.
17:6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder
 before them I am.
17:7 And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow
 all of them.
17:8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent
 against the profane Stirreth himself up.
17:9 And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean
 of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
17:10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you
 a wise man.
17:11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off,
 The possessions of my heart!
17:12 Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of
 darkness.
17:13 If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have
 spread out my couch.
17:14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou [art] my father.'
 `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.
17:15 And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold
 it?
17:16 [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the
 dust we may rest.
18:1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
18:2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards
 do we speak.
18:3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been
 defiled in your eyes!
18:4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth
 forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
18:5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there
 doth not shine a spark of his fire.
18:6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him
 is extinguished.
18:7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down
 doth his own counsel.
18:8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare
 he doth walk habitually.
18:9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the
 designing.
18:10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
18:11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have
 scattered him -- at his feet.
18:12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
18:13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth
 death's first-born.
18:14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him
 to step to the king of terrors.
18:15 It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered
 over his habitation is sulphur.
18:16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut
 off is his crop.
18:17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no
 name on the street.
18:18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the
 habitable earth cast him out.
18:19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people,
 And none is remaining in his dwellings.
18:20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns
 have taken fright.
18:21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the
 place God hath not known.
19:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
19:2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
19:3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make
 yourselves strange to me --
19:4 And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error
 remain.
19:5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide
 against me my reproach;
19:6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net
 against me hath set round,
19:7 Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry
 aloud, and there is no judgment.
19:8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths
 darkness He placeth.
19:9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth
 the crown from my head.
19:10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth
 like a tree my hope.
19:11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to
 Him as His adversaries.
19:12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against
 me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
19:13 My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine
 acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
19:14 Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have
 forgotten me,
19:15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon
 me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
19:16 To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With
 my mouth I make supplication to him.
19:17 My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the
 sons of my [mother's] womb.
19:18 Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak
 against me.
19:19 Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I
 have loved, Have been turned against me.
19:20 To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I
 deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath
 stricken against me.
19:22 Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not
 satisfied?
19:23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth
 grant that in a book they may be graven?
19:24 With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may
 be hewn.
19:25 That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last,
 For the dust he doth rise.
19:26 And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my
 flesh I see God:
19:27 Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and
 not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
19:28 But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of
 the matter hath been found in me.
19:29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the
 punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a
 judgment.
20:1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
20:2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my
 sensations in me.
20:3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine
 understanding Doth cause me to answer:
20:4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of
 man on earth?
20:5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of
 the profane for a moment,
20:6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head
 against a cloud he strike --
20:7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say:
 `Where [is] he?'
20:8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is
 driven away as a vision of the night,
20:9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again
 doth his place behold him.
20:10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his
 wealth.
20:11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the
 dust it lieth down.
20:12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it
 under his tongue,
20:13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back
 in the midst of his palate,
20:14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps
 [is] in his heart.
20:15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his
 belly God driveth it out.
20:16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a
 viper.
20:17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and
 butter.
20:18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not
 consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults
 not.
20:19 For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath
 taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
20:20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his
 desirable thing he delivereth not himself.
20:21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good
 doth not stay.
20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every
 perverse hand doth meet him.
20:23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth
 forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth
 on him in his eating.
20:24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow
 of brass.
20:25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a
 glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are]
 terrors.
20:26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a
 fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.
20:27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising
 itself against him.
20:28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a
 day of His anger.
20:29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an
 inheritance appointed him by God.
21:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
21:2 Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
21:3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may
 deride.
21:4 I -- to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May
 not my temper become short?
21:5 Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
21:6 Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And
 my flesh hath taken fright.
21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea,
 they have been mighty in wealth.
21:8 Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And
 their offspring before their eyes.
21:9 Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of
 God upon them.
21:10 His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow
 bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
21:11 They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their
 children skip,
21:12 They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice
 at the sound of an organ.
21:13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to]
 Sheol go down.
21:14 And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the
 knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
21:15 What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we
 profit when we meet with Him?'
21:16 Lo, not in their hand [is] their good, (The counsel of the
 wicked Hath been far from me.)
21:17 How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come
 on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His
 anger.
21:18 They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane
 hath stolen away,
21:19 God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth
 recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.
21:20 His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the
 Mighty he drinketh.
21:21 For what [is] his delight in his house after him, And the
 number of his months cut off?
21:22 To God doth [one] teach knowledge, And He the high doth
 judge?
21:23 This [one] dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease
 and quiet.
21:24 His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones
 doth moisten.
21:25 And this [one] dieth with a bitter soul, And have not
 eaten with gladness.
21:26 Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth
 cover them over.
21:27 Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me
 ye do wrongfully.
21:28 For ye say, `Where [is] the house of the noble? And where
 the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
21:29 Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their
 signs do ye not know?
21:30 That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day
 of wrath they are brought.
21:31 Who doth declare to his face his way? And [for] that which
 he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?
21:32 And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a
 watch is kept.
21:33 Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after
 him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
21:34 And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your
 answers hath been left trespass?
22:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
22:2 To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself
 is profitable?
22:3 Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous?
 is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?
22:4 Because of thy reverence Doth He reason [with] thee? He
 entereth with thee into judgment:
22:5 Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to
 thine iniquities.
22:6 For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the
 garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.
22:7 Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the
 hungry thou withholdest bread.
22:8 As to the man of arm -- he hath the earth, And the accepted
 of face -- he dwelleth in it.
22:9 Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the
 fatherless are bruised.
22:10 Therefore round about thee [are] snares, And trouble thee
 doth fear suddenly.
22:11 Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters
 doth cover thee.
22:12 Is not God high [in] heaven? And see the summit of the
 stars, That they are high.
22:13 And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through
 thickness doth He judge?
22:14 Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, And He doth not
 see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,
22:15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of
 iniquity have trodden?
22:16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out
 on their foundation.
22:17 Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth
 the Mighty One to them?
22:18 And he hath filled their houses [with] good: (And the
 counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
22:19 See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent
 mocketh at them,
22:20 `Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their
 excellency hath fire consumed.'
22:21 Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace,
 Thereby thine increase [is] good.
22:22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His
 sayings in thy heart.
22:23 If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up,
 Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.
22:24 So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the
 valleys a covering.
22:25 And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver [is]
 strength to thee.
22:26 For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost
 lift up unto God thy face,
22:27 Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear
 thee, And thy vows thou completest.
22:28 And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee,
 And on thy ways hath light shone.
22:29 For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And
 the bowed down of eyes he saveth.
22:30 He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been
 delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.
23:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
23:2 Also -- to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been
 heavy because of my sighing.
23:3 O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His
 seat,
23:4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with]
 arguments.
23:5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He
 saith to me.
23:6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No!
 surely He putteth [it] in me.
23:7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for
 ever from my judge.
23:8 Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I
 perceive him not.
23:9 [To] the left in His working -- and I see not, He is
 covered [on] the right, and I behold not.
23:10 For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as
 gold I go forth.
23:11 On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept,
 and turn not aside,
23:12 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my
 allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.
23:13 And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And
 His soul hath desired -- and He doth [it].
23:14 For He doth complete my portion, And many such things
 [are] with Him.
23:15 Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider,
 and am afraid of Him.
23:16 And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath
 troubled me.
23:17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me
 He covered thick darkness.
24:1 Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden,
 And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
24:2 The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently
 away, Yea, they do evil.
24:3 The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in
 pledge the ox of the widow,
24:4 They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid
 the poor of the earth.
24:5 Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about
 their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself --
 food for young ones.
24:6 In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the
 wicked they glean.
24:7 The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there
 is no covering in the cold.
24:8 From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a
 refuge -- have embraced a rock.
24:9 They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on
 the poor they lay a pledge.
24:10 Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have
 taken away a sheaf.
24:11 Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have
 trodden, and thirst.
24:12 Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced
 ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
24:13 They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have
 not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.
24:14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor
 and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
24:15 And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight,
 Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in
 secret.
24:16 He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut
 themselves up, They have not known light.
24:17 When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he
 discerneth the terrors of death shade.
24:18 Light he [is] on the face of the waters, Vilified is their
 portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
24:19 Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol [those
 who] have sinned.
24:20 Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten [on] him doth the worm,
 No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
24:21 Treating evil the barren [who] beareth not, And [to] the
 widow he doth no good,
24:22 And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and
 none believeth in life.
24:23 He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his
 eyes [are] on their ways.
24:24 High they were [for] a little, and they are not, And they
 have been brought low. As all [others] they are shut up, And as
 the head of an ear of corn cut off.
24:25 And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of
 nothing my word?
25:1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
25:2 The rule and fear [are] with Him, Making peace in His high
 places.
25:3 Is their [any] number to His troops? And on whom ariseth
 not His light?
25:4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure
 -- born of a woman?
25:5 Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not
 been pure in His eyes.
25:6 How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!
26:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
26:2 What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not
 strong!
26:3 What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise
 plans in abundance made known.
26:4 With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came
 forth from thee?
26:5 The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their
 inhabitants.
26:6 Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering
 to destruction.
26:7 Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth
 upon nothing,
26:8 Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is
 not rent under them.
26:9 Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it
 His cloud.
26:10 A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of
 light with darkness.
26:11 Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because
 of His rebuke.
26:12 By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His
 understanding smitten the proud.
26:13 By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His
 hand the fleeing serpent.
26:14 Lo, these [are] the borders of His way, And how little a
 matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth
 understand?
27:1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
27:2 God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty --
 He made my soul bitter.
27:3 For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of
 God in my nostrils.
27:4 My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not
 utter deceit.
27:5 Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn
 not aside mine integrity from me.
27:6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it
 go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
27:7 As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the
 perverse.
27:8 For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut
 off? When God doth cast off his soul?
27:9 His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
27:10 On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all
 times?
27:11 I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the
 Mighty I hide not.
27:12 Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why [is] this -- ye
 are altogether vain?
27:13 This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the
 inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
27:14 If his sons multiply -- for them [is] a sword. And his
 offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
27:15 His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not
 weep.
27:16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare
 clothing,
27:17 He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the
 silver the innocent doth apportion.
27:18 He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a
 watchman hath made.
27:19 Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he
 hath opened, and he is not.
27:20 Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him
 away hath a whirlwind.
27:21 Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it
 frighteneth him from his place,
27:22 And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand
 he diligently fleeth.
27:23 It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from
 his place.
28:1 Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the
 gold they refine;
28:2 Iron from the dust is taken, And [from] the firm stone
 brass.
28:3 An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he
 is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.
28:4 A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten
 of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.
28:5 The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part
 is turned like fire.
28:6 A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, And it hath dust
 of gold.
28:7 A path -- not known it hath a ravenous fowl, Nor scorched
 it hath an eye of the kite,
28:8 Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it
 hath the fierce lion.
28:9 Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned
 from the root mountains.
28:10 Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious
 thing hath his eye seen.
28:11 From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden
 thing bringeth out [to] light.
28:12 And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where [is] this,
 the place of understanding?
28:13 Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the
 land of the living.
28:14 The deep hath said, `It [is] not in me,' And the sea hath
 said, `It is not with me.'
28:15 Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its
 price.
28:16 It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious
 onyx and sapphire,
28:17 Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor [is] its exchange a
 vessel of fine gold.
28:18 Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of
 wisdom [is] above rubies.
28:19 Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is
 not valued.
28:20 And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where [is]
 this, the place of understanding?
28:21 It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the
 fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.
28:22 Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have
 heard its fame.'
28:23 God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.
28:24 For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole
 heavens He doth see,
28:25 To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out
 in measure.
28:26 In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the
 brightness of the voices,
28:27 Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it,
 and also searched it out,
28:28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that [is]
 wisdom, And to turn from evil [is] understanding.'
29:1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
29:2 Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of
 God's preserving me?
29:3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I
 walk [through] darkness.
29:4 As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of
 God upon my tent.
29:5 When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me -- my
 young ones,
29:6 When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is]
 with me rivulets of oil.
29:7 When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I
 prepare my seat.
29:8 Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged
 have risen -- they stood up.
29:9 Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their
 mouth.
29:10 The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to
 the palate hath cleaved.
29:11 For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye
 hath seen, and testifieth [to] me.
29:12 For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the
 fatherless who hath no helper.
29:13 The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart
 of the widow I cause to sing.
29:14 Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe
 and a diadem my justice.
29:15 Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am]
 I.
29:16 A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not
 known I search out.
29:17 And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his
 teeth I cast away prey.
29:18 And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I
 multiply days.'
29:19 My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my
 branch.
29:20 My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is
 renewed.
29:21 To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent
 for my counsel.
29:22 After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech
 drop,
29:23 And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they
 have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.
29:24 I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light
 of my face cause not to fall.
29:25 I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in
 a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.
30:1 And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I,
 Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
30:2 Also -- the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On
 them hath old age perished.
30:3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry
 place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
30:4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is]
 their food.
30:5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them
 as a thief),
30:6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth
 and clefts.
30:7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered
 together.
30:8 Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been
 smitten from the land.
30:9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a
 byword.
30:10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And
 from before me have not spared to spit.
30:11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the
 bridle from before me, They have cast away.
30:12 On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have
 cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of
 calamity.
30:13 They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit,
 `He hath no helper.'
30:14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have
 rolled themselves.
30:15 He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind
 mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed
 away.
30:16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do
 days of affliction.
30:17 At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids
 do not lie down.
30:18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the
 mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
30:19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
30:20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have
 stood, and Thou dost consider me.
30:21 Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of
 Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.
30:22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to
 ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.
30:23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And
 [to] the house appointed for all living.
30:24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand,
 Though in its ruin they have safety.
30:25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my
 soul for the needy.
30:26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for
 light, and darkness cometh.
30:27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me
 have days of affliction.
30:28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an
 assembly I cry.
30:29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to
 daughters of the ostrich.
30:30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned
 from heat,
30:31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound
 of weeping.
31:1 A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to
 a virgin?
31:2 And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the
 inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
31:3 Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers
 of iniquity?
31:4 Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
31:5 If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to
 deceit,
31:6 He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know
 my integrity.
31:7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine
 eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
31:8 Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be
 rooted out.
31:9 If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening
 of my neighbour I laid wait,
31:10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others
 bend.
31:11 For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
31:12 For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among
 all mine increase doth take root,
31:13 If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my
 handmaid, In their contending with me,
31:14 Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth
 inspect, What do I answer Him?
31:15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare
 us in the womb doth One.
31:16 If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the
 widow do consume,
31:17 And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not
 eat of it,
31:18 (But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father,
 And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
31:19 If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no
 covering to the needy,
31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of
 my sheep He doth not warm himself,
31:21 If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in
 [him] the gate of my court,
31:22 My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the
 bone be broken.
31:23 For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because
 of His excellency I am not able.
31:24 If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold
 have said, `My trust,'
31:25 If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because
 abundance hath my hand found,
31:26 If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon
 walking,
31:27 And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss
 my mouth,
31:28 It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God
 above.
31:29 If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up
 myself when evil found him,
31:30 Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an
 oath his life.
31:31 If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his
 flesh, we are not satisfied.'
31:32 In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the
 traveller I open.
31:33 If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my
 bosom mine iniquity,
31:34 Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of
 families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of
 the opening.
31:35 Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One
 doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
31:36 If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown
 on myself.
31:37 The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach
 Him.
31:38 If against me my land doth cry out, And together its
 furrows weep,
31:39 If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of
 its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
31:40 Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of
 barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
32:1 And these three men cease from answering Job, for he [is]
 righteous in his own eyes,
32:2 and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the
 Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger
 burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;
32:3 and against his three friends hath his anger burned,
 because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
32:4 And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for
 they are older than he in days.
32:5 And Elihu seeth that there is no answer in the mouth of the
 three men, and his anger burneth.
32:6 And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith:
 -- Young I [am] in days, and ye [are] age Therefore I have
 feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion.
32:7 I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.
32:8 Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One
 Doth cause them to understand.
32:9 The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand
 judgment.
32:10 Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion
 -- even I.
32:11 Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your
 reasons, Till ye search out sayings.
32:12 And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for
 Job, [Or] answerer of his sayings among you.
32:13 Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him
 away, not man.
32:14 And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your
 sayings I do not answer him.
32:15 (They have broken down, They have not answered again, They
 removed from themselves words.
32:16 And I have waited, but they do not speak, For they have
 stood still, They have not answered any more.)
32:17 I answer, even I -- my share, I shew my opinion -- even I.
32:18 For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the
 spirit of my breast,
32:19 Lo, my breast [is] as wine not opened, Like new bottles it
 is broken up.
32:20 I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips
 and answer.
32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto
 man give flattering titles,
32:22 For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a
 little doth my Maker take me away.
33:1 And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and [to] all my
 words give ear.
33:2 Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath
 spoken in the palate.
33:3 Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, And
 knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.
33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the
 Mighty doth quicken me.
33:5 If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me --
 station thyself.
33:6 Lo, I [am], according to thy word, for God, From the clay I
 -- I also, have been formed.
33:7 Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee
 is not heavy.
33:8 Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of
 words I hear:
33:9 `Pure [am] I, without transgression, Innocent [am] I, and I
 have no iniquity.
33:10 Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me
 for an enemy to Him,
33:11 He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my
 paths.'
33:12 Lo, [in] this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee,
 that greater is God than man.
33:13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When [for] all
 His matters He answereth not?
33:14 For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold
 it.)
33:15 In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep
 sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.
33:16 Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their
 instruction sealeth:
33:17 To turn aside man [from] doing, And pride from man He
 concealeth.
33:18 He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life
 from passing away by a dart.
33:19 And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the
 strife of his bones [is] enduring.
33:20 And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable
 food.
33:21 His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his
 bones, they were not seen!
33:22 And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to
 those causing death.
33:23 If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a
 thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
33:24 Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going
 down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
33:25 Fresher [is] his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the
 days of his youth.
33:26 He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him.
 And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man
 His righteousness.
33:27 He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I
 have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
33:28 He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And
 my life on the light looketh.'
33:29 Lo, all these doth God work, Twice -- thrice with man,
33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened
 with the light of the living.
33:31 Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I -- I do
 speak.
33:32 If there are words -- answer me, Speak, for I have a
 desire to justify thee.
33:33 If there are not -- hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I
 teach thee wisdom.
34:1 And Elihu answereth and saith:
34:2 Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear
 to me.
34:3 For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
34:4 Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among
 ourselves what [is] good.
34:5 For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath
 turned aside my right,
34:6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow --
 without transgression.'
34:7 Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
34:8 And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity,
 So as to go with men of wickedness.
34:9 For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he
 delighteth himself with God.'
34:10 Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from
 God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:
34:11 For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to
 the path of each He doth cause him to find.
34:12 Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth
 not pervert judgment.
34:13 Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath
 placed all the habitable world?
34:14 If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath
 unto Him He gathereth.
34:15 Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
34:16 And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to
 the voice of my words.
34:17 Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost
 thou condemn?
34:18 Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,' Unto princes --
 `Wicked?'
34:19 That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath
 known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands [are]
 all of them.
34:20 [In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people,
 and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
34:21 For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps
 He doth see.
34:22 There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of
 iniquity to be hidden there;
34:23 For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in
 judgment,
34:24 He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth
 others in their stead.
34:25 Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned
 by night, And they are bruised.
34:26 As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of
 beholders.
34:27 Because that against right They have turned aside from
 after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
34:28 To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the
 cry of the afflicted He heareth.
34:29 And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the
 face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to
 a man, [It is] the same.
34:30 From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a
 people;
34:31 For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not
 corruptly,
34:32 Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I
 have done -- I do not add?'
34:33 By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That
 thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
34:34 Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening
 to me.
34:35 Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words
 [are] not with wisdom.
34:36 My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of
 answers for men of iniquity,
34:37 For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he
 vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.
35:1 And Elihu answereth and saith: --
35:2 This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My
 righteousness [is] more than God's?'
35:3 For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I
 profit from my sin?'
35:4 I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
35:5 Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the
 clouds, They have been higher than thou.
35:6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy
 transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
35:7 If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or
 what from thy hand doth He receive?
35:8 For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son
 of man thy righteousness.
35:9 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry
 out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
35:10 And none said, `Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in
 the night,
35:11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than
 the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
35:12 There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the
 pride of evil doers.
35:13 Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not
 behold it.
35:14 Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment
 [is] before Him, and stay for Him.
35:15 And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His
 anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.
35:16 And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without
 knowledge words he multiplieth.
36:1 And Elihu addeth and saith: --
36:2 Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are]
 words.
36:3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe
 righteousness.
36:4 For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in
 knowledge [is] with thee.
36:5 Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power
 [and] heart.
36:6 He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor
 appointeth;
36:7 He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from]
 kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they
 are high,
36:8 And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of
 affliction,
36:9 Then He declareth to them their work, And their
 transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
36:10 And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith
 that they turn back from iniquity.
36:11 If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in
 good, And their years in pleasantness.
36:12 And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away,
 And expire without knowledge.
36:13 And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when
 He hath bound them.
36:14 Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the
 defiled.
36:15 He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And
 uncovereth in oppression their ear.
36:16 And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad
 place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy
 table Hath been full of fatness.
36:17 And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled,
 Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
36:18 Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an
 atonement turn thee not aside.
36:19 Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces
 of power.
36:20 Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their
 stead.
36:21 Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou
 hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.
36:22 Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him
 -- a teacher?
36:23 Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou
 hast done iniquity?'
36:24 Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
36:25 All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from
 afar.
36:26 Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His
 years, Yea, there [is] no searching.
36:27 When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine
 rain according to its vapour,
36:28 Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
36:29 Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud?
 The noises of His tabernacle?
36:30 Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the
 sea He hath covered,
36:31 For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in
 abundance.
36:32 By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a
 charge over it in meeting,
36:33 He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against
 perversity.
37:1 Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its
 place.
37:2 Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the
 sound from His mouth goeth forth.
37:3 Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light [is]
 over the skirts of the earth.
37:4 After it roar doth a voice -- He thundereth with the voice
 of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His
 voice is heard.
37:5 God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great
 things and we know not.
37:6 For to snow He saith, `Be [on] the earth.' And the small
 rain and great rain of His power.
37:7 Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by
 all men of His work.
37:8 And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its
 habitations it doth continue.
37:9 From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from
 scatterings winds -- cold,
37:10 From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of
 waters is straitened,
37:11 Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud
 doth His light.
37:12 And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their
 doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable
 earth.
37:13 Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He
 doth cause it to come.
37:14 Hear this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.
37:15 Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to
 shine the light of His cloud?
37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of
 the Perfect in knowledge?
37:17 How thy garments [are] warm, In the quieting of the earth
 from the south?
37:18 Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds --
 strong as a hard mirror!
37:19 Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array
 because of darkness.
37:20 Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken,
 surely he is swallowed up.
37:21 And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it [is] in
 the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.
37:22 From the golden north it cometh, Beside God [is] fearful
 honour.
37:23 The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and
 judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,
37:24 Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of
 heart.
38:1 And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith:
 --
38:2 Who [is] this -- darkening counsel, By words without
 knowledge?
38:3 Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and
 cause thou Me to know.
38:4 Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast
 known understanding.
38:5 Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath
 stretched out upon it a line?
38:6 On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its
 corner-stone?
38:7 In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons
 of God shout for joy,
38:8 And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth,
 from the womb it goeth out.
38:9 In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its
 swaddling band,
38:10 And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
38:11 And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command
 is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
38:12 Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou
 the dawn to know its place?
38:13 To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked
 are shaken out of it,
38:14 It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station
 themselves as clothed.
38:15 And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm
 lifted up is broken.
38:16 Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching
 the deep Hast thou walked up and down?
38:17 Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of
 death-shade dost thou see?
38:18 Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of
 earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.
38:19 Where [is] this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness,
 where [is] this -- its place?
38:20 That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou
 dost understand The paths of its house.
38:21 Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number
 of thy days [are] many!
38:22 Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the
 treasures of hail dost thou see?
38:23 That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of
 conflict and battle.
38:24 Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It
 scattereth an east wind over the earth.
38:25 Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for
 the lightning of the voices?
38:26 To cause [it] to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness --
 no man in it.
38:27 To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to
 shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
38:28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of
 dew?
38:29 From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of
 the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
38:30 As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is
 captured.
38:31 Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the
 attractions of Kesil dost thou open?
38:32 Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for
 her sons dost thou comfort?
38:33 Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou
 appoint Its dominion in the earth?
38:34 Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of
 water doth cover thee?
38:35 Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto
 thee, `Behold us?'
38:36 Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given
 To the covered part understanding?
38:37 Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of
 the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
38:38 In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave
 together?
38:39 Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young
 lions fulfil?
38:40 When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a
 covert?
38:41 Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young
 ones cry unto God? They wander without food.
39:1 Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats
 of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
39:2 Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast
 known the time of their bringing forth!
39:3 They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely,
 Their pangs they cast forth.
39:4 Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they
 have gone out, And have not returned to them.
39:5 Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of
 the wild ass who opened?
39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings
 the barren land,
39:7 He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an
 exactor he heareth not.
39:8 The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every
 green thing he seeketh.
39:9 Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
39:10 Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band?
 Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
39:11 Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And
 dost thou leave unto him thy labour?
39:12 Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed?
 And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?
39:13 The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion
 of the ostrich or hawk.
39:14 For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she
 doth warm them,
39:15 And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast
 of the field tread it down.
39:16 Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is]
 her labour without fear.
39:17 For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not
 given a portion To her in understanding:
39:18 At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth
 at the horse and at his rider.
39:19 Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his
 neck [with] a mane?
39:20 Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of
 his snorting [is] terrible.
39:21 They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth
 forth to meet the armour.
39:22 He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth
 not back from the face of the sword.
39:23 Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and
 a halbert.
39:24 With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And
 remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.
39:25 Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth
 smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
39:26 By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his
 wings to the south?
39:27 At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up
 his nest?
39:28 A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a
 rock, and fortress.
39:29 From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his
 eyes look attentively,
39:30 And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced [are]
 -- there [is] he!
40:1 And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --
40:2 Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of
 God, let him answer it.
40:3 And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --
40:4 Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I
 have placed on my mouth.
40:5 Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add
 not.
40:6 And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith:
 --
40:7 Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and
 cause thou Me to know.
40:8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me,
 That thou mayest be righteous?
40:9 And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him
 dost thou thunder?
40:10 Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour
 and beauty put on.
40:11 Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every
 proud one, and make him low.
40:12 See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the
 wicked in their place.
40:13 Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in
 secret.
40:14 And even I -- I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth
 salvation to thee.
40:15 Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as
 an ox he eateth.
40:16 Lo, I pray thee, his power [is] in his loins, And his
 strength in the muscles of his belly.
40:17 He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs
 are wrapped together,
40:18 His bones [are] tubes of brass, His bones [are] as a bar
 of iron.
40:19 He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth
 nigh his sword;
40:20 For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of
 the field play there.
40:21 Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and
 mire.
40:22 Cover him do shades, [with] their shadow, Cover him do
 willows of the brook.
40:23 Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is
 confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.
40:24 Before his eyes doth [one] take him, With snares doth
 [one] pierce the nose?
41:1 Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope
 thou lettest down -- his tongue?
41:2 Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce
 his jaw?
41:3 Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak
 unto thee tender things?
41:4 Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a
 servant age-during?
41:5 Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him
 for thy damsels?
41:6 (Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the
 merchants!)
41:7 Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with
 fish-spears his head?
41:8 Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle -- do not add!
41:9 Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance
 is not one cast down?
41:10 None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who [is] he
 before Me stationeth himself?
41:11 Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole
 heavens it [is] mine.
41:12 I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter
 of might, And the grace of his arrangement.
41:13 Who hath uncovered the face of his clothing? Within his
 double bridle who doth enter?
41:14 The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his
 teeth [are] terrible.
41:15 A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close
 seal.
41:16 One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter
 between them.
41:17 One unto another they adhere, They stick together and are
 not separated.
41:18 His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as
 the eyelids of the dawn.
41:19 Out of his mouth do flames go, sparks of fire escape.
41:20 Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and
 reeds.
41:21 His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his
 mouth goeth forth.
41:22 In his neck lodge doth strength, And before him doth grief
 exult.
41:23 The flakes of his flesh have adhered -- Firm upon him --
 it is not moved.
41:24 His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower
 piece.
41:25 From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings
 they keep themselves free.
41:26 The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear -- dart --
 and lance.
41:27 He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.
41:28 The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by
 him into stubble are stones of the sling.
41:29 As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at
 the shaking of a javelin.
41:30 Under him [are] sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on
 the mire.
41:31 He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as
 a pot of ointment.
41:32 After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the
 deep to be hoary.
41:33 There is not on the earth his like, That is made without
 terror.
41:34 Every high thing he doth see, He [is] king over all sons
 of pride.
42:1 And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --
42:2 Thou hast known that [for] all things Thou art able, And
 not withheld from Thee is [any] device:
42:3 `Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?'
 Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful
 for me, and I know not.
42:4 `Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and
 cause thou me to know.'
42:5 By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye
 hath seen Thee.
42:6 Therefore do I loathe [it], And I have repented on dust and
 ashes.
42:7 And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words
 unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned
 hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends,
 because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My
 servant Job.
42:8 And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go
 ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to
 ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for
 surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly,
 because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My
 servant Job.
42:9 And they go -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the
 Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite -- and do as Jehovah hath spoken
 unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.
42:10 And Jehovah hath turned [to] the captivity of Job in his
 praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add [to] all that Job
 hath -- to double.
42:11 And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his
 sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread
 with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him
 concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and
 they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.
42:12 And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than
 his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six
 thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand
 she-asses.
42:13 And he hath seven sons and three daughters;
42:14 and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of
 the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.
42:15 And there have not been found women fair as the daughters
 of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an
 inheritance in the midst of their brethren.
42:16 And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and
 seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;
42:17 and Job dieth, aged and satisfied [with] days.