But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not 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 would not have been, like infants who did not see light.

As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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

And you shall know that your seed will be numerous, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a torrent; they pass away as the streams of torrents,

Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind?

As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for his wages,

As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

I have sinned. What shall I do to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?

For please ask of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers,

For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment;

Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?

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

For it increases! You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous on me.

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

a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining is as darkness.

For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.

for you shall forget your misery, and you shall remember it as waters that pass away.

And your lifetime shall be clearer than the noonday; though there be darkness, you shall be as the morning.

But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall short of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?

But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds 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 mock Him?

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

As the waters fail from the sea, and a river falls away and dries up,

With us are both the gray-headed and aged, mightier than your father as to days.

Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

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

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.

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

If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

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

Why are we counted as cattle, or seem stupid in your sight?

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy.

Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it.

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should my spirit not be troubled?

they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals away.

Did you not ask those who go by the way? And do you not know their signs,

And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him and every man shall draw after him, as there is no numbering of those before him.

Can a man be useful to God, as he who is wise may be useful to himself?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honored man lived in it.

But He knows the way that I take; when He has 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.

As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.

As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me as the perverse.

As to the earth, out of it comes bread; and underneath it is turned up like fire.

Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, and silver be weighed as its price.

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

as I was in the days of my harvest, when the secret of God was on my tent;

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

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

They are driven forth from the midst; they cried against them as a thief.

As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin.

for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her;

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are; I also am formed out of the clay.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?

so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Whether as a whip, or for His land, or for mercy, He finds it.

Now gird up your loins like a man; for I will ask of you, and you teach Me.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?

Who has sent out the wild ass free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass,

She treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?

None is so fierce as to dare to stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?

Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds.

His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a riding millstone.

He counts iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

Darts are counted as straw; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.

Hear, I beseech You, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will cause me to know.

And it happened after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

And now take to yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of Me what is right, like My servant Job.

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded them. Jehovah also accepted the face of Job.

And in all the land there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.