When ¹  the days of their feasting were finished, ²  Job would send ³  for them and sanctify ⁴  them; he would get up early ⁵  in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to ⁶  the number of them all. For Job thought, “Perhaps ⁷  my children ⁸  have sinned and cursed ⁹  God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.

“Surely you know ¹  that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed ²  on the earth,

For you write down ¹  bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth. ² 

Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

just as I was in my most productive time, ¹  when God’s intimate friendship ²  was experienced in my tent,

then his flesh is restored ¹  like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor. ² 

Let its morning stars ¹  be darkened; let it wait ²  for daylight but find none, ³  nor let it see the first rays ⁴  of dawn,