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.

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

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which 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.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

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

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

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

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

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

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

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

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

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

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should 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 canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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

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

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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

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

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

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

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

But as for you all, do ye 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?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

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

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

Why do ye 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 carrieth away.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable 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 honourable man dwelt in it.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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

The murderer rising with the light killeth 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 know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not 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 other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed 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 mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

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

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and 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 tabernacle;

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

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 chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth 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 soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth 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 her from my mother's womb;)

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine 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 hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

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

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

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

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

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

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

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.