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.