1. “And yet, O Iyoḇ, please hear my speech and listen to all my words.
2. See, please! I shall open my mouth, my tongue shall speak in my mouth.
3. My words are from the uprightness of my heart, my lips shall speak knowledge clearly.
4. The Spirit of Ěl has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5. If you are able, answer me, set yourself in order before me, take your stand.
6. See, I am like you before Ěl, I too have been formed out of clay.
7. See, no fear of me should alarm you, nor should pressure by me be heavy on you.
8. But you have spoken in my hearing, and the sound of words I hear, saying,
9. ‘I am clear, without transgression; I am innocent, and I have no crookedness.
10. See, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
11. He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths.’
12. See, in this you have not been righteous. Let me answer you: Eloah is greater than man!
13. Why have you complained against Him? Because He does not answer all His matters?
14. For Ěl does speak once, or twice – though one does not notice it –
15. in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on a bed,
16. then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,