and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn.

It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!

"Now as for me, I would seek God if I were you; I would commit my case to God.

"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

The eyes of the one who sees me won't see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won't be around!

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

If you seek God, if you ask the Almighty for mercy,

If one were to seek to argue with him, he won't be able to answer him even once in a thousand times.

""For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.

So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,

For he knows mankind's deceitfulness; when he sees iniquity, won't he himself consider it?

You'll be secure, because there is hope; you'll see that you're at rest and safe.

"Look, I've seen everything; I've listened carefully and I understand.

"I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen,

Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren.

Their own eyes will see their destruction; and they'll drink the wrath of the Almighty.

The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him.

you see nothing but darkness, and a flood of troubles drowns you."

Thick clouds cover him so he can't see as he walks back and forth at heaven's horizon.

The righteous will see this and rejoice; the innocent will insult him, saying,

If he's working in the north, I can't observe him; If he turns south, I can't see him.

"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.

a place where birds of prey never fly, and the eyes of the falcon have never seen.

For he looks as far as the ends of the earth and sees everything under the sky.

The young men would see me and withdraw, and the aged would rise and stand.

My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.

If I have stepped away from the way, or if my heart covets whatever my eyes see, or if some other blemish clings to my hands,

His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn't be seen, are visible.

He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit; my life will see the light.'

"He strikes the wicked among them in a place where they can be seen

"If he remains silent, who will condemn him? If he conceals his face, who can see him? He watches over both nation and individual alike,

What I don't see, instruct me! If I've done anything evil, I won't repeat it!'

All of mankind sees him; human beings observe him from afar off."

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen where the hail is stored,

What you see as a raging river doesn't alarm him; he is confident when the Jordan overflows.

I've heard you with my ears; and now I've seen you with my eyes.