²⁷ Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

⁸ As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

⁹ From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.

¹⁰ The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

¹¹ An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

²² And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, `What reason ye in your hearts?

⁸⁶ All Thy commands `are' faithfulness, `With' falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.

⁴ Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.

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.

³ and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

²⁹ This `is' the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

⁵ That the singing of the wicked `is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

²⁰ `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

²¹ A fearful voice `is' in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

²² He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched `is' he for the sword.

²³ He is wandering for bread -- `Where `is' it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

²⁴ Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

²⁵ For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

²⁶ He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

²⁷ For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over `his' confidence.

²⁸ And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

²⁹ He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

³⁰ He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

³¹ Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

³² Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.

³³ He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

³⁴ For the company of the profane `is' gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

⁵ If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

⁶ If pure and upright thou `art', Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

³ I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

¹⁹ for this `is' gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;