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if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,

Indeed, the disaster from God was a dread for me, and I was powerless because of his majesty.

no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.

Have the people of my tent not said, ‘O that someone had not been satisfied with his meat'?

Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.

and he became angry at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.

And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no one for Job who refuted, answering his words among you.

But he did not direct his words to me, and I will not answer him with your words.

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.

"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even with the strife of his bones continually,

so that his life loathes bread, and his inner self loathes appetizing food.

His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, which are invisible, are bared.

And he draws near to the pit and his life to the killers.

"If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness

His flesh is renewed with his youth; he returns to the days of his youthful strength.

He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

to bring his life back from the pit so that he may enjoy the light of life.

If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,

who shows no partiality to officials and who does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant, for all of them are the work of his hands?