There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

In all this, Job did not sin and did not {charge God with wrongdoing}.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

"Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.

As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

So what if I sin? What have I done against you, you observer of humankind? Why have you made me your target? Why burden yourself with me?

Why not forgive my sin
and pardon my transgression?
For soon I will lie down in the grave.
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.

"If your children sin against him, he'll make them a prisoner of their sins.

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

He will soon fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips will shout with joy.

Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

He would show you the secrets of wisdom,
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your sin.

But a stupid man will gain understanding
as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!

If sin is in your hand, put it far away [from you],
And do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tents;

Then, indeed, you could lift up your face [to Him] without moral defect,
And you would be firmly established and secure and not fear.

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin [as a sign of mourning]
And have defiled my horn (symbol of strength) in the dust.

That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine-presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;

For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.

But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out,

And said to the son of earth, Lo! the reverence of the Lord, that, is wisdom, and, to avoid evil, is understanding.

Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

let someone else eat what I have sown,
and let my crops be uprooted.

For this is a wickedness and sin, that is worthy to be punished;

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

Who will give to me hearing to me.? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

So when Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, saw that these three men were not able to make Job answer, he was miscontent.