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Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?

Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that - with the ridge - shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?

The crag, he inhabiteth, and so lodgeth himself, on the tooth of the crag, and high fort;

So then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: -

None so bold, that he will rouse him! Who then is he that, before me, can stand?

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto them, - and Yahweh accepted Job.

And, Yahweh, blessed the latter end of Job, more than his beginning, - and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land, - and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren.

So Job died, old and satisfied with days.

So doth he become like a tree planted by streams of waters, - that yieldeth, its fruit, in its season, whose leaf, also doth not wither, and, whatsoever he doeth, prospereth.

Not so, the lawless, - but as chaff which is driven about by the wind:

But, for himself, hath he made ready the weapons so deadly, His arrows, he, so fiery, would make:

The whole, have turned aside, Together have they become tainted, - There is none that doeth good, not so much as, one!

So became I blameless with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.

Teaching my hands to war, - so that a bow of bronze was bent by mine arms.

Thou didst widen my stepping-places under me, so that, mine ankles, faltered not.

I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;

So will he bring forth, as the light, thy righteousness, and thy vindication as the noonday.

Turn from evil, and do good, and so settle down, unto times age-abiding.

I said, to myself, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue, - I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless is before me.