- 1. And Job answereth and saith: --
- 2. O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
- 3. For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
- 4. For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!
- 5. Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
- 6. Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
- 7. My soul is refusing to touch! They `are' as my sickening food.
- 8. O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
- 9. That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
- 10. And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
- 11. What `is' my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
- 12. Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?
- 13. Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
- 14. To a despiser of his friends `is' shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
- 15. My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
- 16. That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.
- 17. By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
- 18. Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
- 19. Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
- 20. They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
- 21. Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
- 22. Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
- 23. And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
- 24. Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
- 25. How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
- 26. For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
- 27. Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
- 28. And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
- 29. Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it.
- 30. Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
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