Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.