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¹ Then responded Job, and said: - ² Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:³ Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!⁴ Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?⁵ Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!⁶ When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -

⁷ Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power?⁸ Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;⁹ Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;¹⁰ His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;¹¹ They send forth - like a flock - their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy;¹² They rejoice aloud as with timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe;¹³ They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.¹⁴ Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?¹⁶ Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!

¹⁷ How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;¹⁸ They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.¹⁹ Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;²⁰ His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.²¹ For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?²² Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?²³ This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure;²⁴ His veins, are filled with nourishment, and, the marrow of his bones, is fresh;²⁵ Whereas, this other man, dieth, in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted good fortune:²⁶ Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.

²⁷ Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless?²⁹ Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?³⁰ That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led.³¹ Who can declare - to his face - his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him?³² Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch;³³ Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed, - and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.³⁴ How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, in them treachery?