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His bones may be filled with [the vigor of] his youth, but it will join him lying in the dust.

he may linger over it and not let it go but keep it there in his mouth —

Yet he himself had filled their homes with good things! (But the advice of the wicked is far away from me.)

‘Indeed, our substance has not been not cut off, but the fire has consumed their wealth.'

"But he has no equal, so who can change him? What he desires, he does.

The eye of the adulterer too waits for twilight; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me'; but [to be sure], he covers his face.

And these are but the fringes of his ways; how faint the echo we hear of him! But who is able to grasp the meaning of his thundering power?"

he may collect it, but the just will wear it, and the upright divide up the silver.

He may lie down rich, but his wealth yields nothing; when he opens his eyes, it isn't there.

"But where can wisdom be found? Where is the source of understanding?

"But now those younger than I hold me in derision, men whose fathers I wouldn't even have put with the dogs that guarded my sheep.

"I call out to you [God], but you don't answer me; I stand up to plead, but you just look at me.

But then the anger of Elihu the son of Barakh'el the Buzi, from the family of Ram, blazed up against Iyov for thinking he was right and God wrong.

His anger also blazed up against his three friends, because they had found no answer to Iyov but condemned him anyway.

But it is the spirit in a person, the breath from Shaddai, that gives him understanding —

I paid attention to you, but none of you convicted Iyov or refuted his arguments.

But must I wait just because they don't speak, just because they stand there, stuck for an answer?

"But in this, you are wrong; I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.

For Iyov says, ‘I am in the right, but God is denying me justice.

"But if God is silent, who can accuse him; if he hides his face, who can see him? He may do this to nations and persons alike,