what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.