But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. 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.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.

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

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

The things that my soul refused to touch are as loathsome food to me.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks that pass away;

Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for the reward of his work:

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in trial.

Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?

Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,

Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?

Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself awesome against me.

I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

And your life shall be brighter than the noonday; you shall shine forth, you shall be as the morning.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as one dying.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?

I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the river decays and dries up:

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

He has made me also a byword of the people; and I was as one before whom men spit.

But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Why are we counted as beasts, and regarded as vile in your sight?

They that come after him shall be astounded at his day, as they that went before were frightened.

He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.

They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall follow after him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising early for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one recognizes them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and pile up clothing as the clay;

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread: but under it is turned up as it were fire.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was as a robe and a turban.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt like a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my honor as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new wineskins.

For the ear tests words, as the mouth tastes food.

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?

As for the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundant justice: he will not afflict.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

It is turned as clay under the seal; and they stand out as a garment.

Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;

Behold now behemoth, which I made with you; he eats grass as an ox.

His bones are as strong pieces of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron.

Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you leash him for your maidens?

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot or caldron.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the lower millstone.

He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Darts are counted as straw: he laughs at the threat of a javelin.

Hear, I ask you, and I will speak: I will question you, and you declare unto me.