Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.

But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

"Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

"Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!