because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

"If I did sin, thou haddest an eye unto me, and shalt not declare me innocent because of mine offense.

that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee?

But if ye will enhance yourselves against me, and accuse me to be a wicked person because of the shame that is come upon me;

Now because that God is higher than the heavens, and because thou seest the stars are so high,

whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep?

Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much?

So these three men would strive no more with Job, because he held himself a righteous man.

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man.

Why dost thou then strive against him? Because he giveth thee no accounts of all his doings?

O father let Job be well tried, because he hath turned himself to the wicked:

If any such complain, no man giveth answer; and that because of the wickedness of proud tyrants.

Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness.

Mayest thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour unto him?

And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.