Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.

For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Only grant these two things to me, God,
so that I will not have to hide from Your presence:

If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,

His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.

A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,
and a snare waits for him along the path.

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Iron is taken from the ground,
and copper is smelted from ore.

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,
in places unknown to those who walk above ground.
Suspended far away from people,
the miners swing back and forth.

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.

She abandons her eggs on the ground
and lets them be warmed in the sand.