⁵ And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

¹ And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

² Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

³ O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

⁵ I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

⁶ In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me.

⁷ There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

⁶ Lo, I `am', according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

⁷ Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee is not heavy.

⁸ Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

⁹ `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity.

¹⁰ Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

¹¹ He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

¹² Lo, `in' this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

¹³ Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?

¹⁴ For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)

¹⁵ In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

¹⁶ Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth:

¹⁷ To turn aside man `from' doing, And pride from man He concealeth.

¹⁸ He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.

¹ And Jehovah doth answer Job, and saith: --

² Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

³ And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: --

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.