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Job1

¹There was a man in the land of ‘Utz [wooded], whose name [was] Iyov [hated]; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and eschewed evil.

²And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

³His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

⁴And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, everyone his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

⁵And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Iyov [hated] sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Iyov [hated] said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in their hearts. Thus did Iyov [hated] continually.

⁶Now there was a day when the sons of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came to present themselves before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and Satan came also among them.

⁷And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Satan, Whence come youi? Then Satan answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

⁸And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Satan, Have youi considered my servant Iyov [hated], that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and eschews evil?

⁹Then Satan answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, Does Iyov [hated] fear God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] for nothing?

¹⁰Have not youi made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? youi have Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

¹¹But put forth youi hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse youi to youi face.

¹²And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Satan, Behold, all that he has [is] in youi power; only upon himself put not forth youi hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

¹⁴And there came a messenger unto Iyov [hated], and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

¹⁵And the S’va [drunkards] fell [upon them], and took them away; yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell youi.

¹⁶While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] is fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell youi.

¹⁷While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Kasdim [clod-breakers] made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yes, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell youi.

¹⁸While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, You1s sons and youi daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

¹⁹And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell youi.

²⁰Then Iyov [hated] arose, and rent his Mantle (cloak; covering garment) (cloak), and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

²¹And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has taken away; Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) be the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²²In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] foolishly.

¹Again there was a day when the sons of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came to present themselves before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Satan, From what place come youi? And Satan answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

³And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Satan, Have youi considered my servant Iyov [hated], that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and eschews evil? and still he holds fast his integrity, although youi moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.

⁴And Satan answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.

⁵But put forth youi hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse youi to youi face.

⁶And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in youri hand; but save his life.

⁷So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and struck Iyov [hated] with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

⁸And he took him a potsherd (piece of broken pottery) to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

⁹Then said his wife unto him, Do youi still retain youi integrity? curse God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and die.

¹⁰But he said unto her, youi speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Iyov [hated] sin with his lips.

¹¹Now when Iyov’s [hated] three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Elifaz [my God is (fine) gold] the Temani [southward], and Bildad [confusing by mingling love] the Shuchi [wealth], and Tzofar [sparrow] the Na’amti [pleasantness]: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

¹²And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his Mantle (cloak; covering garment) (cloak), and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

¹³So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.

¹After this opened Iyov [hated] his mouth, and cursed his day.

²And Iyov [hated] spoke, and said,

³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁶As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come in it.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

⁹Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

¹¹Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

¹²Why did the knees prevent (come before; go before; anticipate) me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹⁴With kings and counselors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

¹⁷There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

¹⁸[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.

²⁰For what reason is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;

²¹Which long for death, but it [comes] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²²Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?

²³[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has hedged in?

²⁴For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

¹Then Elifaz [my God is (fine) gold] the Temani [southward] answered and said,

²[If] we assay to commune with youi, will youi be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

³Behold, youi have instructed many, and youi have strengthened the weak hands.

⁴You1s words have upholden him that was falling, and youi have strengthened the feeble knees.

⁵But now it is come upon youi, and youi faintest; it touches youi, and youi are troubled.

⁶[Is] not [this] youri fear, youri confidence, youri hope, and the uprightness of youri ways?

⁷Remember, I pray youi, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

⁸Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

⁹By the blast of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

¹²Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little thereof.

¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁴Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

¹⁶It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before my eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],

¹⁷Shall mortal man be more just than God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

¹⁸Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

¹⁹How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

²⁰They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding [it].

²¹Does not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

¹Call now, if there be any that will answer youi; and to which of the saints will youi turn?

²For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.

³I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].

⁵Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallow (to approve, commend, accept)s up their substance.

⁶Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁸I would seek unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] would I commit my cause:

⁹Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

¹⁰Who gives rain upon the earth, and send waters upon the fields:

¹¹To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

¹²He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.

¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] is carried headlong.

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

¹⁵But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

¹⁷Behold, happy [is] the man whom God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] corrects: therefore despise not youi the chastening of the Almighty:

¹⁸For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

¹⁹He shall deliver youi in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch youi.

²⁰In famine he shall redeem youi from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

²¹youi shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall youi be afraid of destruction when it comes.

²²At destruction and famine youi shall laugh: neither shall youi be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

²³For youi shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with youi.

²⁴And youi shall know that youi tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and youi shall visit youi habitation, and shall not sin.

²⁵youi shall know also that youi seed [shall be] great, and youi offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁶youi shall come to [youi] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.

²⁷Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know youi [it] for youi good.

¹But Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

³For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up.

⁴For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drink up my spirit: the terrors of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] do set themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) against me.

⁵Does the wild ass groan (wail; make a foul noise) when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder?

⁶Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

⁷The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.

⁸Oh that I might have my request; and that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

⁹Even that it would please God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

¹⁰Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

¹¹What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] my end, that I should prolong my life?

¹²[Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?

¹³[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

¹⁴To him that is afflicted pity [should be showed] from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

¹⁵My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;

¹⁶Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:

¹⁷What time they grow (become; advance) warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

¹⁸The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

¹⁹The troops of Teima [desert] looked, the companies of Sheva [Seven] waited for them.

²⁰They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there, and were ashamed.

²¹For now you2f are nothing; you2f see [my] casting down, and are afraid.

²²Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

²³Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

²⁴Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

²⁵How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?

²⁶Do you2f imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

²⁷Yes, you2f overwhelm the fatherless, and you2f dig [a pit] for your friend.

²⁸Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.

²⁹Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.

³⁰Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

¹[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an employee (hired laborer)?

²As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an employee (hired laborer) looks for [the reward of] his work:

³So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

⁴When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

⁷O remember that my life [is] wind: my eye shall no more see good.

⁸The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no [more]: youi eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.

⁹[As] the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no [more].

¹⁰He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him anymore.

¹¹Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹²[Am] I a sea, or a whale, that youi set a watch over me?

¹³When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

¹⁴Then youi terrify me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

¹⁵So that my soul chooses strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

¹⁶I loathe [it]; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

¹⁷What [is] man, that youi should magnify him? and that youi should set youi heart upon him?

¹⁸And [that] youi should visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?

¹⁹How long will youi not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow (to approve, commend, accept) down my spittle?

²⁰I have sinned; what shall I do unto youi, O youi preserver of men? why have youi set me as a mark against youi, so that I am a burden to myself?

²¹And why do youi not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and youi shall seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].

¹Then answered Bildad [confusing by mingling love] the Shuchi [wealth], and said,

²How long will youi speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of youi mouth [be like] a strong wind?

³Does God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

⁴If youi children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

⁵If youi would seek unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] early, and make youi supplication to the Almighty;

⁶If youi [were] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for youi, and make the habitation of youi righteousness prosperous.

⁷Though youi beginning was small, yet youi latter end should greatly increase.

⁸For enquire, I pray youi, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:

⁹(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow)

¹⁰Shall not they teach youi, [and] tell youi, and utter words out of their heart?

¹¹Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

¹²Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.

¹³So [are] the paths of all that forget God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

¹⁴Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s web.

¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

¹⁶He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

¹⁷His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] sees the place of stones.

¹⁸If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen youi.

¹⁹Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

²⁰Behold, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers:

²¹Till he fill youi mouth with laughing, and youi lips with rejoicing.

²²They that hate youi shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.

¹Then Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]?

³If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

⁴[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened [himself] against him, and has prospered?

⁵Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns them in his anger.

⁶Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

⁷Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.

⁸Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.

⁹Which makes ‘Ash (Arcturus) [bear watcher], Kesil (Orion) [The Fool], and Kimah (Pleiades) [a cluster], and the chambers of the south.

¹⁰Which does great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.

¹¹Lo, he goes by me, and I see [him] not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.

¹²Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do youi?

¹³[If] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

¹⁴How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason] with him?

¹⁵Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.

¹⁶If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had listened unto my voice.

¹⁷For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

¹⁸He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

¹⁹If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?

²⁰If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

²¹[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

²²This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

²³If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

²⁴The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?

²⁵Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

²⁶They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hastes to the prey.

²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that youi will not hold me innocent.

²⁹[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

³¹Yet shall youi plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

³²For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

³³Neither is there any arbitrator between us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

³⁴Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

³⁵[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.

¹My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²I will say unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], Do not condemn me; show me wherefore youi contend with me.

³[Is it] good unto youi that youi should oppress, that youi should despise the work of youi hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁴Have youi eyes of flesh? or see youi as man sees?

⁵[Are] youi days as the days of man? [are] youi years as man’s days,

⁶That youi enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

⁷youi know that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of youi hand.

⁸Your1s hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet youi do destroy me.

⁹Remember, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, that youi have made me as the clay; and will youi bring me into dust again?

¹⁰Have youi not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

¹¹youi have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.

¹²youi have granted me life and favour, and youi visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹³And these [things] have youi hid in youi heart: I know that this [is] with youi.

¹⁴If I sin, then youi mark me, and youi will not acquit me from my iniquity.

¹⁵If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see youi my affliction;

¹⁶For it increases. youi hunt me as a fierce lion: and again youi show yourself marvelous upon me.

¹⁷youi renew youri witnesses against me, and increase youri indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.

¹⁸For what reason then have youi brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

¹⁹I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

²¹Before I go [from what place] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

²²A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

¹Then answered Tzofar [sparrow] the Na’amti [pleasantness], and said,

²Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

³Should youi lies make men hold their peace? and when youi mock, shall no man make youi ashamed?

⁴For youi have said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in youi eyes.

⁵But oh that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] would speak, and open his lips against youi;

⁶And that he would show youi the secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] exacts of youi [less] than youri iniquity [deserves].

⁷Can youi by searching find out God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? can youi find out the Almighty’s limits?

⁸[It is] as high as heaven; what can youi do? deeper than hell; what can youi know?

⁹The measure thereof [is] longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

¹⁰If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

¹¹For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?

¹²For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass’s colt.

¹³If youi prepare youi heart, and stretch out youi hands toward him;

¹⁴If iniquity [be] in youi hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in youi tabernacles.

¹⁵For then shall youi lift up youi face without spot; yes, youi shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

¹⁶Because youi shall forget [youi] misery, [and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away:

¹⁷And [youi] age shall be clearer than the noonday; youi shall shine forth, youi shall be as the morning.

¹⁸And youi shall be secure, because there is hope; yes, youi shall dig [about youi, and] youi shall take youi rest in safety.

¹⁹Also youi shall lie down, and none shall make [youi] afraid; yes, many shall make suit unto youi.

²⁰But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.

¹And Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²No doubt but you2f [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

³But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yes, who knows not such things as these?

⁴I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calls upon God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and he answer him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.

⁵He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

⁶The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] are secure; into whose hand God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] brings [abundantly].

⁷But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach youi; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell youi:

⁸Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach youi: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto youi.

⁹Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has wrought this?

¹⁰In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

¹¹Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

¹²With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

¹³With him [is] wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.

¹⁴Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

¹⁵Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he send them out, and they overturn the earth.

¹⁶With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver [are] his.

¹⁷He leads counselors away spoiled, and makes the fools.

¹⁸He looses the bond of kings, and put on their waist with a belt.

¹⁹He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty.

²⁰He removes away the speech of the trusty, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

²¹He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

²²He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

²³He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens them [again].

²⁴He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no way.

²⁵They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].

¹Lo, my eye has seen all [this], my ear has heard and understood it.

²What you2f know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.

³Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁴But you2f [are] forgers of lies, you2f [are] all physicians of no value.

⁵O that you2f would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

⁶Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

⁷Will you2f speak wickedly for God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? and talk deceitfully for him?

⁸Will you2f accept his person? will you2f contend for God-El [The Powerful Living Word]?

⁹Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you2f [so] mock him?

¹⁰He will surely reprove you, if you2f do secretly accept persons.

¹¹Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

¹²Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

¹³Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].

¹⁴For what reason do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.

¹⁶He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

¹⁷Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

¹⁸Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.

¹⁹Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

²⁰Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from youi.

²¹Withdraw youi hand far from me: and let not youi dread make me afraid.

²²Then call youi, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer youi me.

²³How many [are] my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

²⁴For what reason hide youi youri face, and hold me for youi enemy?

²⁵Will youi break a leaf driven to and fro? and will youi pursue the dry stubble?

²⁶For youi write bitter things against me, and makes me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

²⁷youi put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; youi set a print upon the heels of my feet.

²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.

¹Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.

²He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continue not.

³And do youi open youi eyes upon such an one, and brings me into judgment with youi?

⁴Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.

⁵Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with youi, youi have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

⁶Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an employee (hired laborer), his day.

⁷For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

⁸Though the root thereof grow (become; advance) old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

⁹[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

¹⁰But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where [is] he?

¹¹[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:

¹²So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

¹³O that youi would hide me in the grave, that youi would keep me secret, until youi wrath be past, that youi would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹⁴If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

¹⁵youi shall call, and I will answer youi: youi will have a desire to the work of youi hands.

¹⁶For now youi my steps: do youi not watch over my sin?

¹⁷My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and youi sews up my iniquity.

¹⁸And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.

¹⁹The waters wear the stones: youi washes away the things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth; and youi destroy the hope of man.

²⁰youi prevail forever against him, and he passes: youi change his Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor), and send him away.

²¹His sons come to honour, and he knows [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceives [it] not of them.

²²But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

¹Then answered Elifaz [my God is (fine) gold] the Temani [southward], and said,

²Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

³Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches which he can do no good?

⁴Yes, youi cast off fear, and restraints prayer before God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁵For youri mouth utters youri iniquity, and youi choose the tongue of the crafty.

⁶Your1s own mouth condemns youi, and not I: yes, youri own lips testify against youi.

⁷[Are] youi the first man [that] was born? or were youi made before the hills?

⁸Have youi heard the secret of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? and do youi restrain wisdom to yourself?

⁹What know youi, that we know not? [what] understand youi, which [is] not in us?

¹⁰With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than youi father.

¹¹[Are] the consolations of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] small with youi? is there any secret thing with youi?

¹²Why does youi heart carry youi away? and what do youi eyes wink at,

¹³That youi turn youri spirit against God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and let [such] words go out of youri mouth?

¹⁴What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

¹⁶How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drink iniquity like water?

¹⁷I will show youi, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;

¹⁸Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:

¹⁹Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

²⁰The wicked man travails with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

²¹A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

²²He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

²³He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

²⁴Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

²⁵For he stretches out his hand against God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and strengthens himself against the Almighty.

²⁶He runs upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses (bump-like shapes on a shield) of his bucklers:

²⁷Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes blubber of fat on [his] flanks.

²⁸And he dwells in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

²⁹He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

³¹Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.

³²It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

³³He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

³⁴For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

³⁵They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

¹Then Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] you2f all.

³Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens youi that youi answer?

⁴I also could speak as you2f [do]: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

⁵[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage [your grief].

⁶Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and [though] I refrain (restrain; refrein from acting), what am I eased?

⁷But now he has made me weary: youi have made desolate all my company.

⁸And youi have filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

⁹He tears [me] in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

¹⁰They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

¹¹God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

¹²I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

¹³His archers compass (go around, encircle; encompass) me round about, he cleaves my reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion) asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall (something bitter or poisonous) upon the ground.

¹⁴He breaks me with breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet) upon breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet), he runs upon me like a giant.

¹⁵I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

¹⁶My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;

¹⁷Not for [any] injustice in my hands: also my prayer [is] pure.

¹⁸O earth, cover not youi my blood, and let my cry have no place.

¹⁹Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.

²⁰My friends scorn me: [but] my eye pours out [tears] unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²¹O that one might plead for a man with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as a man [pleads] for his neighbour!

²²When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [from what place] I shall not return.

¹My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

²[Are there] not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation?

³Lay down now, put me in a surety with youi; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?

⁴For youi have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall youi not exalt [them].

⁵He that speaks flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tambourine.

⁷Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

⁸Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁹The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

¹⁰But as for you all, do you2f return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.

¹²They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

¹³If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

¹⁴I have said to corruption, youi [are] my father: to the worm, [youi are] my mother, and my sister.

¹⁵And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.

¹Then answered Bildad [confusing by mingling love] the Shuchi [wealth], and said,

²How long [will it be before] you2f make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

³For what reason are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

⁴He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for youi? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

⁵Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

⁷The steps of his strength shall be straightened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

⁹The trap shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

¹⁰The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

¹²His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

¹³It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

¹⁵It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: sulfur shall be scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁹He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

²⁰They that come after [him] shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

²¹Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knows not God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹Then Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²How long will you2f vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

³These ten times have you2f reproached me: you2f are not ashamed [that] you2f make yourselves strange to me.

⁴And be it indeed [that] I have erred, my error remains with myself.

⁵If indeed you2f will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach (disgrace; shame):

⁶Know now that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.

⁷Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.

⁸He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

⁹He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.

¹⁰He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.

¹¹He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as [one of] his enemies.

¹²His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

¹³He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are truly estranged from me.

¹⁴My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children’s [sake] of my own body.

¹⁸Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

¹⁹All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

²⁰My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²¹Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you2f my friends; for the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has touched me.

²²Why do you2f persecute me as God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

²⁴That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

²⁵For I know [that] my redeemer lives, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:

²⁶And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]:

²⁷Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion) be consumed within me.

²⁸But you2f should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

²⁹Be you2f afraid of the sword: for wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, that you2f may know [there is] a judgment.

¹Then answered Tzofar [sparrow] the Na’amti [pleasantness], and said,

²Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.

³I have heard the rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain) of my reproach (disgrace; shame), and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

⁴Know youi [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

⁵That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

⁶Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

⁷[Yet] he shall perish forever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

⁹The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

¹⁰His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

¹¹His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

¹³[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

¹⁴[Yet] his meat in his bowels (inward parts; affections) is turned, [it is] the gall (something bitter or poisonous) of asps within him.

¹⁵He has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall cast them out of his belly.

¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

¹⁷He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

¹⁸That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow (to approve, commend, accept) [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [in it].

¹⁹Because he has oppressed [and] has forsaken the poor; [because] he has violently taken away an house which he built not;

²⁰Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

²¹There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

²²In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

²³[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.

²⁴He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.

²⁵It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall (something bitter or poisonous): terrors [are] upon him.

²⁶All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

²⁷The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

²⁹This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and the heritage appointed unto him by God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹But Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

³Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

⁴As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

⁵Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.

⁶Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

⁷For what reason do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?

⁸Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

⁹Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] upon them.

¹⁰Their bulls are fertile, and fail not; their cow calve, and casts not her calf.

¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

¹²They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

¹³They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

¹⁴Therefore they say unto God-El [The Powerful Living Word], Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of youi ways.

¹⁵What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

¹⁶Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] comes their destruction upon them! [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]] distributes sorrows in his anger.

¹⁸They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

¹⁹God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know [it].

²⁰His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

²¹For what pleasure [has] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

²²Shall [any] teach God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] knowledge? seeing he those that are high.

²³One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

²⁴His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

²⁵And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.

²⁶They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

²⁷Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] you2f wrongfully imagine against me.

²⁸For you2f say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

²⁹Have you2f not asked them that go by the way? and do you2f not know their tokens,

³⁰That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

³¹Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he has done?

³²Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

³³The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.

³⁴How then comfort you2f me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

¹Then Elifaz [my God is (fine) gold] the Temani [southward] answered and said,

²Can a man be profitable unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

³[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that youi are righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that youi makes youi ways perfect?

⁴Will he reprove youi for fear of youi? will he enter with youi into judgment?

⁵[Is] not youi wickedness great? and youi iniquities infinite?

⁶For youi have taken a pledge from youi brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

⁷youi have not given water to the weary to drink, and youi have withheld bread from the hungry.

⁸But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

⁹youi have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹⁰Therefore snares [are] round about youi, and sudden fear troubles youi;

¹¹Or darkness, [that] youi cannot see; and abundance of waters cover youi.

¹²[Is] not God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

¹³And youi say, How does God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

¹⁴Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.

¹⁵Have youi marked the old way which wicked men have trampled?

¹⁶Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

¹⁷Which said unto God-El [The Powerful Living Word], Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁹The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

²⁰Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

²¹Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto youi.

²²Receive, I pray youi, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in youi heart.

²³If youi return to the Almighty, youi shall be built up, youi shall put away iniquity far from youi tabernacles.

²⁴Then shall youi lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ofir [reducing to ashes] as the stones of the brooks.

²⁵Yes, the Almighty shall be youi defense, and youi shall have plenty of silver.

²⁶For then shall youi have youi delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up youi face unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²⁷youi shall make youi prayer unto him, and he shall hear youi, and youi shall pay youi vows.

²⁸youi shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto youi: and the light shall shine upon youi ways.

²⁹When [men] are cast down, then youi shall say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

³⁰He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of youi hands.

¹Then Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²Even today [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

³Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

⁴I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

⁶Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.

⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.

⁸Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

⁹On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]:

¹⁰But he knows the way that I take: [when] he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹¹My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].

¹³But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desires, even [that] he does.

¹⁴For he performs [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.

¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

¹⁶For God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] has he covered the darkness from my face.

¹Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

²[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].

³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

⁴They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

⁵Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising early for a prey: the wilderness [yields] food for them [and] for [their] children.

⁶They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

⁷They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

¹⁰They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

¹¹[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] trample [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] lays not folly [to them].

¹³They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

¹⁴The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

¹⁵The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises [his] face.

¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

¹⁷For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

¹⁸He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.

¹⁹Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so does] the grave [those which] have sinned.

²⁰The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

²¹He evil entreats the barren [that] bears not: and does not good to the widow.

²²He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no [man] is sure of life.

²³[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he rests; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.

²⁴They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

²⁵And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

¹Then answered Bildad [confusing by mingling love] the Shuchi [wealth], and said,

²Dominion and fear [are] with him, he makes peace in his high places.

³Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom does not his light arise?

⁴How then can man be justified with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?

⁵Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yes, the stars are not pure in his sight.

⁶How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the Son of man, [which is] a worm?

¹But Job answered and said,

²How have youi helped [him that is] without power? [how] save youi the arm [that has] no strength?

³How have youi counseled [him that has] no wisdom? and [how] have youi plentifully declared the thing as it is?

⁴To whom have youi uttered words? and whose spirit came from youi?

⁵Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

⁶Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

⁷He stretches out the north over the empty place, [and] hangs the earth upon nothing.

⁸He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹He holds back the face of his throne, [and] spreads his cloud upon it.

¹⁰He has compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof (rebuke; scolding).

¹²He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.

¹³By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.

¹⁴Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

¹Moreover Iyov [hated] continued his parable, and said,

²[As] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] lives, [who] has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] has vexed my soul;

³All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] in my nostrils;

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach (disgrace; shame) [me] so long as I live.

⁷Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

⁸For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] takes away his soul?

⁹Will God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]?

¹¹I will teach you by the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.

¹²Behold, all you2f yourselves have seen [it]; why then are you2f thus altogether vain?

¹³This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

¹⁴If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

¹⁶Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

¹⁷He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁸He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper makes.

¹⁹The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he [is] not.

²⁰Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.

²¹The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

²²For [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain (earnestly want to or long to; gladly) flee out of his hand.

²³[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

¹Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

²Yir’on [fearing] is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.

³He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

⁴The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

⁵[As for] the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

⁶The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.

⁷[There is] a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:

⁸The lion’s whelps have not trampled it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

⁹He puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

¹⁰He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.

¹¹He binds the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid brings he forth to light.

¹²But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?

¹³Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

¹⁴The depth says, It [is] not in me: and the sea says, [It is] not with me.

¹⁵It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof.

¹⁶It cannot be valued with the gold of Ofir [reducing to ashes], with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

¹⁷The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.

¹⁸No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.

¹⁹The topaz of Ethiopia [Kush] shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

²⁰Whence then comes wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

²¹Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

²²Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

²³God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.

²⁴For he looks to the ends of the earth, [and] sees under the whole heaven;

²⁵To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.

²⁶When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

²⁷Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.

²⁸And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.

¹Moreover Iyov [hated] continued his parable, and said,

²Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] preserved me;

³When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;

⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] upon my tabernacle;

⁵When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;

⁶When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

⁷When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!

⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.

⁹The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.

¹⁰The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

¹¹When the ear heard [me], then it Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:

¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a Diadem (royal headband worn by Eastern kings).

¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.

¹⁶I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.

¹⁷And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) out of his teeth.

¹⁸Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

¹⁹My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

²⁰My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

²¹Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

²²After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

²³And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

²⁴[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor) they cast not down.

²⁵I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforts the mourners.

¹But now [they that are] younger than I have me in ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats), whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

²Yes, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

³For lack and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

⁴Who cut up mallow (to approve, commend, accept)s by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

⁵They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

⁶To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

⁷Among the bushes they groan (wail; make a foul noise)ed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

⁸[They were] children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

⁹And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.

¹⁰They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

¹¹Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

¹²Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

¹³They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

¹⁴They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

¹⁵Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

¹⁶And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

¹⁷My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

¹⁸By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

¹⁹He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

²⁰I cry unto youi, and youi do not hear me: I stand up, and youi regard me [not].

²¹youi are become cruel to me: with youri strong hand youi oppose yourself against me.

²²youi lift me up to the wind; youi cause me to ride [upon it], and dissolve my substance.

²³For I know [that] youi will bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.

²⁴However he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

²⁵Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?

²⁶When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

²⁷My bowels (inward parts; affections) boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

²⁸I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.

²⁹I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

³⁰My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

³¹My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

¹I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

²For what portion of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

³[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?

⁴Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

⁵If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hasted to deceit;

⁶Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] may know my integrity.

⁷If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to my hands;

⁸[Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

⁹If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

¹⁰[Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

¹¹For this [is] an heinous crime; yes, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.

¹²For it [is] a fire [that] consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

¹³If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

¹⁴What then shall I do when God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

¹⁸(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

¹⁹If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;

²⁰If his waist have not Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

²²[Then] let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

²³For destruction [from] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

²⁴If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [youi are] my confidence;

²⁵If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;

²⁷And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

²⁸This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God-El [The Powerful Living Word] [that is] above.

²⁹If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

³⁰Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

³¹If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

³²The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveller.

³³If I covered my transgressions as Adam (Man, ground; red; earthling), by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

³⁴Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of the door?

³⁵Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] my adversary had written a book.

³⁶Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

³⁸If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

⁴⁰Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle (a weed resembling wheat) instead of barley. The words of Iyov [hated] are ended.

¹So these three men ceased to answer Iyov [hated], because he [was] righteous in his own eyes.

²Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu [He is my God] the son of Barakh’el [God blesses] the Buzi [contempt], of the family of Ram [high or exalted]: against Iyov [hated] was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

³Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Iyov [hated].

⁴Now Elihu [He is my God] had waited till Iyov [hated] had spoken, because they [were] elder than he.

⁵When Elihu [He is my God] saw that [there was] no answer in the mouth of [these] three men, then his wrath was kindled.

⁶And Elihu [He is my God] the son of Barakh’el [God blesses] the Buzi [contempt] answered and said, I [am] young, and you2f [are] very old; wherefore I was afraid, and dared (was bold enough) not show you my opinion.

⁷I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

⁸But [there is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.

⁹Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

¹⁰Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.

¹¹Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst you2f searched out what to say.

¹²Yes, I attended unto you, and, behold, [there was] none of you that convinced Iyov [hated], [or] that answered his words:

¹³Lest you2f should say, We have found out wisdom: God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] thrusts him down, not man.

¹⁴Now he has not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

¹⁵They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

¹⁶When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, [and] answered no more;)

¹⁷[I said], I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion.

¹⁸For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constrains me.

¹⁹Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

²⁰I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

²¹Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

²²For I know not to give flattering titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.

¹For what reason, Iyov [hated], I pray youi, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

²Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

³My words [shall be of] the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

⁴The Spirit of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.

⁵If youi can answer me, set [youi words] in order before me, stand up.

⁶Behold, I [am] according to youi wish in God-El’s [The Powerful Living Word] stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

⁷Behold, my terror shall not make youi afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon youi.

⁸Surely youi have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [youi] words, [saying],

⁹I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.

¹⁰Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,

¹¹He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths.

¹²Behold, [in] this youi are not just: I will answer youi, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] is greater than man.

¹³Why do youi strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.

¹⁴For God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] speaks once, yes twice, [yet man] perceives it not.

¹⁵In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

¹⁶Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

¹⁷That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide pride from man.

¹⁸He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

¹⁹He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:

²⁰So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.

²¹His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out.

²²Yes, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

²³If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:

²⁴Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

²⁵His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

²⁶He shall pray unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

²⁷He looks upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;

²⁸He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

²⁹Lo, all these [things] works God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] oftentimes with man,

³⁰To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

³¹Mark well, O Iyov [hated], hearken unto me: hold youi peace, and I will speak.

³²If youi have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify youi.

³³If not, hearken unto me: hold youi peace, and I shall teach youi wisdom.

¹Furthermore Elihu [He is my God] answered and said,

²Hear my words, O you2f wise [men]; and give ear unto me, you2f that have knowledge.

³For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat.

⁴Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

⁵For Iyov [hated] has said, I am righteous: and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has taken away my judgment.

⁶Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

⁷What man [is] like Iyov [hated], [who] drink up scorning like water?

⁸Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

⁹For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁰Therefore hearken unto me, you2f men of understanding: far be it from God-El [The Powerful Living Word] [that he should do] wickedness; and [from] the Almighty, [that he should commit] iniquity.

¹¹For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to [his] ways.

¹²Yes, surely God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

¹³Who has given him a charge over the earth? or who has disposed the whole world?

¹⁴If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

¹⁶If now [youi have] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

¹⁷Shall even he that hates right govern? and will youi condemn him that is most just?

¹⁸[Is it fit] to say to a king, [youi are] wicked? [and] to princes, [You2f are] ungodly?

¹⁹[How much less to him] that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all [are] the work of his hands.

²⁰In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

²¹For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.

²²[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

²³For he will not lay upon man more [than right]; that he should enter into judgment with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²⁴He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

²⁵Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed.

²⁶He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

²⁷Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

²⁸So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

²⁹When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:

³⁰That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

³¹Surely it is meet to be said unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend (make angry; make one stumble; violate) [any more]:

³²[That which] I see not teach youi me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

³³[Should it be] according to youi mind? he will recompense it, whether youi refuse, or whether youi choose; and not I: therefore speak what youi know.

³⁴Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

³⁵Iyov [hated] has spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

³⁶My desire [is that] Iyov [hated] may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

³⁷For he adds rebellion unto his sin, he claps [his hands] among us, and multiplies his words against God-El [The Powerful Living Word].

¹Elihu [He is my God] spoke moreover, and said,

²Think youi this to be right, [that] youi said, My righteousness [is] more than God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]’s?

³For youi said, What advantage will it be unto youi? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?

⁴I will answer youi, and youi companions with youi.

⁵Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than youi.

⁶If youi sin, what do youi against him? or [if] youi transgressions be multiplied, what do youi unto him?

⁷If youi be righteous, what give youi him? or what receives he of youi hand?

⁸You1s wickedness [may hurt] a man as youi [are]; and youi righteousness [may profit] the Son of man.

⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰But none says, Where [is] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] my maker, who gives songs in the night;

¹¹Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

¹²There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

¹³Surely God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴Although youi say youi shall not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust youi in him.

¹⁵But now, because [it is] not [so], he has visited in his anger; yet he knows [it] not in great extremity:

¹⁶Therefore does Iyov [hated] open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

¹Elihu [He is my God] also proceeded, and said,

²Suffer me a little, and I will show youi that [I have] yet to speak on God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]’s behalf.

³I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

⁴For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is perfect in knowledge [is] with youi.

⁵Behold, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] mighty, and despises not [any: he is] mighty in strength [and] wisdom.

⁶He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.

⁷He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings [are they] on the throne; yes, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.

⁸And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be held in cords of affliction;

⁹Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

¹⁰He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

¹¹If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

¹²But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

¹³But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.

¹⁴They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.

¹⁵He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

¹⁶Even so would he have removed youi out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on youi table [should be] full of fatness.

¹⁷But youi have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on youi].

¹⁸Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take youi away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver youi.

¹⁹Will he esteem youi riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

²⁰Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

²¹Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have youi chosen rather than affliction.

²²Behold, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] exalts by his power: who teaches like him?

²³Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, youi have wrought iniquity?

²⁴Remember that youi magnify his work, which men behold.

²⁵Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.

²⁶Behold, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

²⁷For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

²⁸Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly.

²⁹Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle?

³⁰Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

³¹For by them he the people; he gives meat in abundance.

³²With clouds he covers the light; and commands it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that comes between.

³³The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

¹At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of his place.

²Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goes out of his mouth.

³He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

⁴After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

⁵God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.

⁶For he says to the snow, Be youi [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

⁷He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

⁸Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

⁹Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

¹⁰By the breath of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened (impeded or restricted; narrowed, distressed).

¹¹Also by watering he wears the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:

¹²And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.

¹³He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

¹⁴Listen unto this, O Iyov [hated]: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁵Do youi know when God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

¹⁶Do youi know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

¹⁷How youi garments [are] warm, when he quiets the earth by the south [wind]?

¹⁸Have youi with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking glass?

¹⁹Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.

²⁰Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up.

²¹And now [men] see not the bright light which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleanses them.

²²Fair weather comes out of the north: with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] terrible majesty.

²³[Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

²⁴Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any [that are] wise of heart.

¹Then the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered Iyov [hated] out of the whirlwind, and said,

²Who [is] this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

³Gird up now youi waist like a man; for I will demand of youi, and answer youi me.

⁴Where were youi when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if youi have understanding.

⁵Who has laid the measures thereof, if youi know? or who has stretched the line upon it?

⁶Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

⁷When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shouted for joy?

⁸Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

⁹When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling clothes (cloths for wrapping infants tightly) for it,

¹⁰And broke up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,

¹¹And said, Till this point in time shall youi come, but no further: and here shall youi proud waves be detained (held)?

¹²Have youi commanded the morning since youi days; [and] caused the Dayspring (sunrise) to know his place;

¹³That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴It is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as a garment.

¹⁵And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

¹⁶Have youi entered into the springs of the sea? or have youi walked in the search of the depth?

¹⁷Have the gates of death been opened unto youi? or have youi seen the doors of the shadow of death?

¹⁸Have youi perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if youi know it all.

¹⁹Where [is] the way [where] light dwells? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,

²⁰That youi should take it to the bound thereof, and that youi should know the paths [to] the house thereof?

²¹Know youi [it], because youi were then born? or [because] the number of youi days [is] great?

²²Have youi entered into the treasures of the snow? or have youi seen the treasures of the hail,

²³Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

²⁴By what way is the light parted, [which] scatters the east wind upon the earth?

²⁵Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

²⁶To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is; on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man;

²⁷To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

²⁸Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?

²⁹Out of whose womb came the ice? and the white colored (white or gray with age) frost of heaven, who has gendered it?

³⁰The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

³¹Can youi bind the sweet influences of Kimah (Pleiades) [a cluster], or loose the bands of Kesil (Orion) [The Fool]?

³²Can youi bring forth Mazzarot (constllations of the zodiac) in his season? or can youi guide Arcturus [bear watcher] with his sons?

³³Know youi the ordinances of heaven? can youi set the dominion thereof in the earth?

³⁴Can youi lift up youi voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover youi?

³⁵Can youi send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto youi, Here we [are]?

³⁶Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?

³⁷Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

³⁸When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave (split open; cut open; divide) fast together?

³⁹Will youi hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

⁴⁰When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the colonnade to lie in wait?

⁴¹Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], they wander for lack of meat.

¹Know youi the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [or] can youi mark when the hinds do calve?

²Can youi number the months [that] they fulfill? or know youi the time when they bring forth?

³They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

⁴Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

⁵Who has sent out the wild ass free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass?

⁶Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

⁷He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver.

⁸The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

⁹Will the unicorn be willing to serve youi, or abide by youi crib?

¹⁰Can youi bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he plow (break up clods; cover seed) the valleys after youi?

¹¹Will youi trust him, because his strength [is] great? or will youi leave youi labour to him?

¹²Will youi believe him, that he will bring home youi seed, and gather [it into] youi barn?

¹³[Gaves youi] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

¹⁴Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

¹⁵And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

¹⁶She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

¹⁷Because God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

¹⁸What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

¹⁹Have youi given the horse strength? have youi clothed his neck with thunder?

²⁰Can youi make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible.

²¹He paws in the valley, and rejoices in [his] strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.

²²He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword.

²³The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

²⁴He swallow (to approve, commend, accept)s the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet.

²⁵He says among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

²⁶Does the hawk fly by youi wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south?

²⁷Does the eagle mount up at youi command, and make her nest on high?

²⁸She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

²⁹From there she seeks the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off.

³⁰Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.

¹Moreover the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered Iyov [hated], and said,

²Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproves God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], let him answer it.

³Then Iyov [hated] answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said,

⁴Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer youi? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

⁵Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yes, twice; but I will proceed no further.

⁶Then answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto Iyov [hated] out of the whirlwind, and said,

⁷Gird up youi waist now like a man: I will demand of youi, and declare youi unto me.

⁸Will youi also disannul my judgment? will youi condemn me, that youi may be righteous?

⁹Have youi an arm like God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? or can youi thunder with a voice like him?

¹⁰Deck yourself now [with] majesty and excellency; and array (to put on; to clothe) yourself with glory and beauty.

¹¹Cast abroad the rage of youi wrath: and behold every one [that is] proud, and abase him.

¹²Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and trample down the wicked in their place.

¹³Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.

¹⁴Then will I also confess unto youi that youi own right hand can save youi.

¹⁵Behold now Behemoth (a large, plant-eating dragon or dinosaur), which I made with youi; he eats grass as an ox.

¹⁶Lo now, his strength [is] in his waist, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

¹⁷He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

¹⁸His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

¹⁹He [is] the chief of the ways of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

²⁰Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

²¹He lies under the shady trees, in the colonnade of the reed, and fens.

²²The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass (go around, encircle; encompass) him about.

²³Behold, he drink up a river, [and] hastes not: he trusts that he can draw up Yarden [Descender] into his mouth.

²⁴He takes it with his eyes: [his] nose pierces through snares.

¹Can youi draw out Livyatan [sea monster, dragon] with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] youi let down?

²Can youi put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

³Will he make many supplications unto youi? will he speak soft [words] unto youi?

⁴Will he make a covenant with youi? will youi take him for a servant forever?

⁵Will youi play with him as [with] a bird? or will youi bind him for youi maidens?

⁶Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

⁷Can youi fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

⁸Lay youi hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

⁹Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

¹¹Who has prevented me, that I should repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is my.

¹²I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely (attractive; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular); becoming) proportion.

¹³Who can discover (uncover; reveal; have first sight of) the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle?

¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round about.

¹⁵[His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.

¹⁶One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

¹⁷They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

¹⁸By his snortings a light does shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.

¹⁹Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out.

²⁰Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.

²¹His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

²²In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

²⁴His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the lower [millstone].

²⁵When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

²⁶The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon (coat of mail for the neck and down).

²⁷He esteems iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.

²⁸The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

²⁹Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

³⁰Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.

³¹He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

³²He makes a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] white colored (white or gray with age).

³³Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

³⁴He beholds all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.

¹Then Iyov [hated] answered the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said,

²I know that youi can do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withheld from youi.

³Who [is] he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁴Hear, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, and I will speak: I will demand of youi, and declare youi unto me.

⁵I have heard of youi by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees youi.

⁶For what reason I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

⁷And it was [so], that after the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had spoken these words unto Iyov [hated], the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said to Elifaz [my God is (fine) gold] the Temani [southward], My wrath is kindled against youi, and against youi two friends: for you2f have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Iyov [hated] [has].

⁸Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Iyov [hated], and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Iyov [hated] shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that you2f have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Iyov [hated].

⁹So Elifaz [my God is (fine) gold] the Temani [southward] and Bildad [confusing by mingling love] the Shuchi [wealth] [and] Tzofar [sparrow] the Na’amti [pleasantness] went, and did according as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded them: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) also accepted Iyov [hated].

¹⁰And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) turned the captivity of Iyov [hated], when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave Iyov [hated] twice as much as he had before.

¹¹Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

¹²So the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the latter end of Iyov [hated] more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

¹³He had also seven sons and three daughters.

¹⁴And he called the name of the first, Y’mimah [day by day]; and the name of the second, K’tzi’ah [cassia]; and the name of the third, Keren-Hapukh [horn of the antimony].

¹⁵And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of Iyov [hated]: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

¹⁶After this lived Iyov [hated] an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, [even] four generations.

¹⁷So Iyov [hated] died, [being] old and full of days.

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