1Then Job replied,
2“Yes, I certainly know that much of what you said is true.
3If someone wanted to argue with God about that,
4God is very wise [IDM] and very powerful;
5He even moves mountains, without them (OR, anyone) knowing about it.
6He sends earthquakes that shake the ground;
7Some days he speaks to the sun, and it does not rise,
8He alone ◄stretched out/put in place► the sky;
9He put in their places the clusters/groups of stars that are called The Dipper/Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars in the southern sky.
10Only he does great things that we cannot understand;
11He passes by where I am, but I do not see him;
12If he wants to snatch something away, no one [RHQ] can hinder him;
13God will not very easily stop being angry;
14“So, if God took me to court,
15Even though I ◄would be innocent/would not have done what is wrong►, I would not be able to answer him.
16If I summoned him to come to the courtroom and he said that he would come,
17He sends storms to batter me,
18It is as though he will not let me get/catch my breath,
19If I would try to ◄wrestle with/fight against► him, there is no way that I could defeat him,
20Even though I was innocent, what I would say would cause him to say that I must be punished [MTY];
21“I have not done what is wrong, but that is not important.
22But it doesn’t matter,
23When people experience disaster and it causes them to suddenly die,
24God has allowed wicked people to control what happens in the world.
25“My days go by very quickly, like a fast runner;
26My life goes by very rapidly, like a boat made from reeds sailing swiftly,
27If I smile and say to God, ‘I will forget what I am complaining about;
28then I become afraid because of all that I am suffering,
29He will ◄condemn me/declare that I should be punished►,
30If I washed myself with snow
31he would still throw me into a filthy pit;
32“God is not a human, as I am,
33There is no one to ◄mediate/hear us and decide who is right►,
34I wish/desire that he would stop punishing [MTY] me,
35If he did that, I would declare that I am innocent without being afraid of him,