And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

If only that day had turned to darkness!
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.

To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him?

Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
So that he does not abandon (turn away from) the fear of the Almighty.

They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them:

Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend.

“What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about him,

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;

Though I am blameless,
I no longer care about myself;
I renounce my life.

"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee, thou shalt take rest in safety.

But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?

The carefree are thinking, "I have contempt for misfortune,' Those who are about to stumble deserve it.

The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave's waistcloth about their loins:

They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.

Why do you speak falsely on God's behalf and speak deceitfully about him?

And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.

He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

They have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.'

“The vigorous stride will be shortened,
And his own counsel and the scheme [in which he trusted] will bring his downfall.

For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework.

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.

He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.

"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

“They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,
when the number of his months has run out?

Therefore round about thee are snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.

“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

That's why I'm terrified at his presence! When I think about it, I'm afraid of him.

Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,

“This [which I am about to explain] is the portion of a wicked man from God,
And the inheritance which tyrants and oppressors receive from the Almighty:

Terrors shall hedge him about as waters, the night a tempest stole him away.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

Destruction and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.'

then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it.

When yet the Mighty One is with me. Round about me -- my young ones,

“The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,
And I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

“I go about mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

if I've observed someone who is about to die for lack of clothes or if I have no clothing to give to the poor,

“Surely I would [proudly] bear it on my shoulder,
And bind the scroll around my head like a crown.

“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
I also will give you my opinion [about Job’s situation] and tell you plainly what I think.’

My insides feel like unvented wine, like it's about to burst like a new wineskin.

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

"You aren't right about this; My response is that God is greater than human beings.

Would I lie about my case?
My wound is incurable,
though I am without transgression.”

He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

Remember to magnify his awesome activities, about which mortal man has sung.

“Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him,
And He covers the depths of the sea.

His thundering tells about him; [the] livestock also [tell] {concerning what rises}.

"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body!

It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world,

“Do you know about the layers of the thick clouds,
The wonders of one perfect in knowledge,

"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

“Who prepares for the raven its nourishment
When its young cry to God
And wander about without food?

but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.

Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?

She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

From thence may he behold his pray, and look far about with his eyes.

The lotus-trees cover him with their shade, the willows of the torrent-bed compass him about;

Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!