Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.

Why did the knees receive me,
and why were there breasts for me to nurse?

Teach me, and I will be silent.
Help me understand what I did wrong.

Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

“Why did You bring me out of the womb?
I should have died and never been seen.

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;
he seized a house he did not build.

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,
when the number of his months has run out?

Today also my complaint is bitter.
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Who did you speak these words to?
Whose breath came out of your mouth?

After a word from me they did not speak again;
my speech settled on them like dew.

Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?
Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

if he did not bless me
while warming himself with the fleece from my sheep,

He will look at men and say,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.

because they turned aside from following Him
and did not understand any of His ways

Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance?”
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.